What is a ‘Progressive Democrat’?

[BrokeLoser]

We’ve seen all the “What is Trumpism”, “What is a MAGA Republican” etc etc
Many people here have told us how “extreme” those MAGA folks are……Tell us, are Progressive Democrats extreme, are we sure they and their policies / ideologies are truly “progressive” and not regressive? Isn’t progress usually defined as positive change for the whole?
Where can we find progressive policies / ideologies working positively for the whole?

 

[TNHarley]

There are no progressive democrats.
Just like there are no liberal democrats.
They rape the meaning of terms and people let them do it.

 

[Votto]

There are no progressive democrats.
Just like there are no liberal democrats.
They rape the meaning of terms and people let them do it.

Which brings up a word problem in my son's woke math class


If a woman in a recession is on a train going 50 ml an hour one way for 2 hours, how many biologists would it take to find an economist to tell us in what city she arrives in?

 

[WEATHER53]

One guided by hopes feelings and wishes and when reality does not support that then claim reality doesn’t exist but feelings do.

 

[basquebromance]

There are no progressive democrats.
Just like there are no liberal democrats.
They rape the meaning of terms and people let them do it.

“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.”​

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

so we disagree...i'm a socialist, you're anti-socialist...does this mean we can't be bros anymore?

 

[TNHarley]

“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.”​

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

so we disagree...i'm a socialist, you're anti-socialist...does this mean we can't be bros anymore?

No

 

[basquebromance]

No

according to a study in the Netherlands, a homeless Dutch person receiving public welfare today has more to spend than the average Dutch person in 1950, and four times more wealth than people in Holland's Glorious "Golden Age", when the Dutch still rules the 7 seas. there's PROGRESS for you!

 

[TNHarley]

according to a study in the Netherlands, a homeless Dutch person receiving public welfare today has more to spend than the average Dutch person in 1950, and four times more wealth than people in Holland's Glorious "Golden Age", when the Dutch still rules the 7 seas. there's PROGRESS for you!

Big govt isnt progress. Big govt is as old as civilization.

 

[basquebromance]

there's a reason many more Americans suffer from obesity than hunger...that didn't used to be the case, folks

it's called progress, my friends

 

[WEATHER53]

Big govt isnt progress. Big govt is as old as civilization.

They need to be told what to do and be financially supported for their aquiessence to not running their own life

 

[Lastamender]

A progressive Democrat is someone who is actively trying to destroy this country by any means possible.

 

[WEATHER53]

there's a reason many more Americans suffer from obesity than hunger...that didn't used to be the case, folks

it's called progress, my friends

It’s called lard ass laziness and using food as an emotional comfort.
You don’t find but a very very few really fat thinkers.

 

[basquebromance]

Big govt isnt progress. Big govt is as old as civilization.

no bro, thanks to progressivism, science fiction is becoming science fact. we have driverless cars, 3D printers, and people with chips implanted in their brains are operating robotic arms with their minds

 

[TNHarley]

no bro, thanks to progressivism, science fiction is becoming science fact. we have driverless cars, 3D printers, and people with chips implanted in their brains are operating robotic arms with their minds

There is a difference between progress and the bedwetters that are the subject of the OP.

 

[basquebromance]

in 1836, the richest man in the world, Nathan Meyer Rothschild, died due to a simple lack of antibiotics. not a single billionaire died of covid, or barely a few. PROGRESS!

 

[WEATHER53]

in 1836, the richest man in the world, Nathan Meyer Rothschild, died due to a simple lack of antibiotics. not a single billionaire died of covid, or barely a few. PROGRESS!

There are less billionaires than their are people who died solely from Covid and Covid alone
Hope I corrected your apples to winter gloves.

 

[basquebromance]

people like Kushner are dreaming of eternal youth. that wouldn't happen 40 years ago. we've made progress!

 

[basquebromance]

There is a difference between progress and the bedwetters that are the subject of the OP.

here's my compassionate progressive utopia:

everyone is forced to love each other, hating each other is punishable by death. in the name of equality, skinny people have to sleep with fatties, smart people have to sleep with the idiots and so on. every person is monitored by a vast network of informants.

 

[miketx]

there's a reason many more Americans suffer from obesity than hunger...that didn't used to be the case, folks

it's called progress, my friends

You're an idiot. Democrats that hate this country, want to destroy the rule of law, love faggots and all other perversions, etc etc etc, call themselves progressive.

 

[basquebromance]

progressives may not offer practical solutions in your view, but you have to concede they do ask the right questions. their heart is in the right place

You're an idiot.