Not really a fan of modern

EmmaZahn — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 18:10:50 +0000

In reply to Wall Street Journal sez Progressive Government is a Failure

Not really a fan of modern progressives and not even of Obama but still could not finish reading that piece of ... umm agitprop.

In the less than 1/3 that I read, the only thing I read that he got right was the bit about self-styled progressives abandoning the liberal label. What he got wrong is their economic orientation. If they were truly economically progressive, they would never have accepted ~~Obamacare~~ the ACA, which is nothing more than a rehash of Romneycare and the 1994 plan proposed by the Heritage Foundation, true descendants of Trotskyism. It is simply more corporate welfare disguised as social welfare.

Where progressives fail economically is in believing that New Deal policies were final answers rather than steps along the way to a new economic synthesis and one that adapts to changes when circumstances change. That is certainly not progressive, it's conservative.

Where they fail politically is not countering outrageous proposals from the other side to float some of their own that will appeal economic liberals even those that are social conservatives aka the poor. Economic progress precedes social progress, not the other way round.

Thanks for the heads up, AA.

MrSmith1 — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:00:37 +0000

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Thanks for the heads up, AA. Just in case I can't make the edit, here's the link:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303618904579167671265894490

You pasted in the wrong link

artappraiser — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:39:23 +0000

In reply to Wall Street Journal sez Progressive Government is a Failure

You pasted in the wrong link by mistake, Mr. Smith (it goes to healthcommunities.com on athritis.) You should be able to easily edit to correct it now because I have commented on the post, see the edit tab at the top.

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Not really a fan of modern

Thanks for the heads up, AA.

You pasted in the wrong link