Poor Buttsoiler.
>> The
Progressive Era was a period of widespread social
activism and political
reform across the United States that
spanned the 1890s to the 1920s.
[1] The main objectives of the
Progressive movement were addressing problems caused by
industrialization,
urbanization,
immigration, and
political corruption. The movement primarily targeted
political machines and their bosses. By taking down these corrupt representatives in office, a further means of
direct democracy would be established. They also sought regulation of monopolies (
trustbusting) and corporations through
antitrust laws, which were seen as a way to promote equal competition for the advantage of legitimate competitors. They also advocated for new government roles and regulations, and new agencies to carry out those roles, such as the
FDA.
Many progressives supported
prohibition of alcoholic beverages, ostensibly to destroy the political power of local bosses based in
saloons, but others out of a religious motivation.
[2] At the same time,
women's suffrage was promoted to bring a "purer" female vote into the arena.
[3] A third theme was building an
Efficiency Movement in every sector that could identify old ways that needed modernizing, and bring to bear scientific, medical and engineering solutions; a key part of the efficiency movement was
scientific management, or "
Taylorism". In Michael McGerr's book
A Fierce Discontent, Jane Addams stated that she believed in the necessity of "association" of stepping across the social boundaries of industrial America.
[4]
Many activists joined efforts to reform local government, public education, medicine, finance, insurance, industry, railroads, churches, and many other areas. Progressives transformed, professionalized and made "scientific" the social sciences, especially history,
[5] economics,
[6] and political science.
[7] In academic fields, the day of the amateur author gave way to the research professor who published in the new scholarly journals and presses. The national political leaders included Republicans
Theodore Roosevelt,
Robert M. La Follette Sr. and
Charles Evans Hughes, and Democrats
William Jennings Bryan,
Woodrow Wilson and
Al Smith. Leaders of the movement also existed far from presidential politics:
Jane Addams,
Grace Abbott,
Edith Abbott and
Sophonisba Breckinridge were among the most influential non-governmental Progressive Era reformers. << --
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Now let's take a look at your video, shall we? The first invocation of the word "progressive" comes at 1:12 from Anderson Cooper in the phrase "progressive values". The next time it comes up is at 1:33 when Clinton mentions "progressive experience and progressive commitment". Those are what we call ADJECTIVES, Buttsoiler. Not nouns.
The only invocation of "A Progressive", as a noun, comes from Cooper at 1:59 where he says, quote, "just for the record, are you a Progressive or are you a Moderate?", which is not only a bogus question because it's a self-assessed label, and also an erroneous one since "Progressives" ----- AS DEMONSTRATED ABOVE ----- left the building a hundred years ago. When Clinton, given that false choice, says "I'm a progressive who likes to get things done", she is being redundant, because that's what the adjective progressive MEANS.
