"goldarn fool progressives"

[bluefrog]

I couldn't find the source or even tell if it's authentic but I thought I'd share anyways. It still seems relevant over a hundred years later.

Funny we never use the term "progressives" for Republicans anymore.

 

[BrianFromWA]

the first 50 years of the century saw US "progressing" from a relatively backwater, isolationist country with few designs on global power to an "arsenal of democracy" that basically saved the western world from communism and the Soviet bloc, with a booming economy in part caused by a dominance of the world's oceans and the associated trade benefits, and "progressing" from a white, puritanical, Victorian-era sensibility to a society that became racially integrated, and allowed women the franchise.

I don't see that "progression" today. I see stuff that is broken not being fixed, and a progression towards individualism and entitlement.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I don't see that "progression" today. I see stuff that is broken not being fixed, and a progression towards individualism and entitlement.

I'll rep you for that observation alone.

** Apparently I have to spread rep around more before giving it to you.

 

[maxiep]

One of the best editorials I've read on our financial crisis yet: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/...ng-catastrophe-we-need-to-face-the-truth.html

 

[barfo]

If that's the best editorial, you must have read a lot of bad ones (I know I did).

Her conclusion

The politics of the US were functioning precisely as the Founding Fathers intended: the legislature was acting as a check on the power of the executive.

shows a pretty thorough lack of understanding about where deficits come from.

barfo