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In reply to the discussion: If you are not intersectional, you are not a progressive. Period. End of discussion. Card revoked. [View all]MGKrebs
(8,138 posts)It's an ideology. It transcends politics or political parties. "Progressives" are not identical to "Democrats". It would be a mistake to imply fault to Democrats for trying to win elections, because that is their purpose, but that is still the best path to achieving progressive goals, even if not perfectly.
Progressive ideology essentially exists in a vacuum, unchanged by circumstances or current events. Democrats work in the dirty world of getting things done. Dems can be more progressive or less progressive, and progressives can be Dem or not. This site is "democraticunderground", so you are going to run into Democrats here.
Progressive purity is more likely to thrive in places like the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, or Greenpeace... organizations who pursue ideological objectives rather than electoral ones. Even so, "progressive" can be a pretty broad concept, so everybody at Greenpeace may not necessarily overlap with everybody at Planned Parenthood. Unless there is a Progressive Party, there is no purity test that any other party will meet.