I've noticed a lot of politicians from the Democratic Party claim themselves as progressive
while doing the opposite of what a progressive would do. 1 point is Barney Frank telling progressives not to vote for Bernie Sanders. Having a firewall between banking, investments, and insurance to protect the people and also individual investors and pension plans and such is progressive. Siding with the 3 Republicans that helped create the bubbles (dot com and real estate) and the economic collapse of 2007/08 is not progressive and has really messed up a lot of lives (ruined millions of people who had worked hard all their lives for what they had). The leadership of the Democratic Party has no interest in progressive government and attacks all in their party who are progressive continually. They only seek out conservative Democrats to run. They never back the progressive candidates for office. Even their stink tanks that call themselves progressive really aren't. All they are concerned with is keeping up with the opposition in cash on hand. It just isn't a progressive party anymore. It may be liberal, but it is not progressive. My opinion of course.
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in an email this week.
I replied back saying essentially what you said here. But with more !!!s. I doubt anyone read it, but it made me feel better. 
This is also why many of us are refusing to vote for corporate Dems anymore. This had to stop, we have 2 parties for a reason. We should have a choice of voting for an actual Democrat opposing a republican. Not Dem(R) vs Rep(R).
Great post, mmonk!!
