What we call progressive today was taken for granted not so long ago. [View All]

[county worker]

I use to have a defined benefit retirement plan. I was in several different unions. I could afford to buy a house on my salary. I had decent health insurance. I paid for college by working and going to school.

Not everything we want today was available in the past but many of the things we want from Obama and Congress we use to have. But today we are "Professional Leftists" to want them back.


We have gone so far to the right that normal is now called progressive! People younger than me who want the same things I use to have are called brash and impatient! Come on folks we can do better than that.

On edit:

It seems to me that the right has even convinced some of us that we can't have a progressive era now or ever.

It is those on the extremes that create the space for us to move from were we are to either further right or further left. They make the space and we chose to move or not and in which direction.