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In reply to the discussion: DU was for change, not progressivism... [View all]phleshdef
(11,936 posts)I'm no less liberal or progressive or whatever you want to call it than the vast majority of DUers who disagree with me on this as far as the laws I want passed, the things I want changed, and so on. I'm just not so blinded by it that I ignore the way the real world around me is working. I can also disagree with the President on something without pissing and shitting myself all over the internets with foamy mouthed, unfounded rants that purposefully ignore context.
And no, moderate Republicans prior to the Reagan transformation are not called moderate Republicans today. Many of them are Democrats. Likewise, many Democrats voted for Reagan (sadly). But that was the beginning of the big polarizing divide we have now. You are obsessed with the party labels aspect of it and completely ignoring the history of the ideological transformations behind these labels. Democrats used to have its own god damn Klan wing for Christ sake. While many moderate Republicans were for civil rights, pro-New Deal, pro-Keynesian, pro-Safety Net expansion, pro-Environmental regulations, pro-Minimum Wage, pro-Union and the list can go on and on and on. With moderate Republicans like that, we'd be well on our way to being the most progressive nation in the world. We don't have them anymore.
The god father of the progressive movement was a Republican.
This isn't even up for debate, its just historical fact and can be easily illustrated.