The Progressive Movement - A political history lesson

[BigBallinStalin]

Its hard for 90% of the country who was raised in a progressive/liberal school and society to break free from the matrix. Shit a heroin addict know nothing more than the drug like a kid doesnt know a pound of candy isn't good for you. Welcome to the progressive movement you've already taken the pill.

You do realize that I could just switch the word "progressive" with the word "conservative" and you'd have an equally valid argument, right?

From what I've understood of true conservatives, e.g. Ron Paul, they seek to limit the state. The progressive MO is to appeal to the state for whatever.

Most people these days clamor to the state for solutions, more often than they seek solutions from themselves, each other, or through local communities.

The progressive ideology is partly responsible for the expanding scope of the federal government over everyone's decision-making. True conservatism doesn't advocate that.

[Phatscotty]

No....this is where those who stand for Freedom and Liberty take a stand against hoarding barbarians and redistribution obsessed progressives that want the demi-god of government to be all powerful and control how every person lives their life


THIS IS WHERE WE FIGHT!

For instance, requiring drug testing in order to receive welfare money. But that's, of course, different...right? Perhaps you can explain how that has nothing at all to do with "wanting the demi-god of government to be all-powerful and control how every person lives their life"?

You're such a hypocrite.

No, not for instance.
You still don't understand? After all this time?
Woodruff, listen very carefully. It's not about requiring drug testing. It's about the states right to choose how to handle their own issues...for citizens to make and live under their own laws.... I.E. LIBERTY

If you're going to talk about FREEDOM! and LIBERTY!, why limit it to the state level? I understand that it's a Constitutional thing, but if you are actually and seriously interested in those two things, the reality is that the local level makes far more sense than the state level does. If you really believe in these two concepts, why are you not arguing for a Constitutional Amendment to make that happen?

FREEDOM! and LIBERTY! are INDIVIDUAL CONCEPTS, not state-wide concepts, you goon.

The issue you brought up, and keep in your pocket like a leprechaun and his last gold piece, was a state issue (Welfare drug testing). I responded to your response likewise at a state level. I did not limit anything to anything.

[warmonger1981]

Well said bigballistalin.

[Juan_Bottom]

I love how the Conservative side of CC is just rehashing scare phrases over and over in here.

[notyou2]

Just because many liberals favour social programs does not necessarily mean they are out for a free ride. The majority of them work and know that their taxes would help pay for those social programs. They are simply in favour of a more equal tax rate FOR ALL and they support many social programs. You guys keep stating that all liberal people want a free ride. Most liberals realize that if the US did not start wars, the poor and the hungry would be non-existent in America.

[Night Strike]

They are simply in favour of a more equal tax rate FOR ALL and they support many social programs.

Except for the 47% that pay no federal income taxes?

[notyou2]

They are simply in favour of a more equal tax rate FOR ALL and they support many social programs.

Except for the 47% that pay no federal income taxes?

Gee, is there such a thing as state tax in America? Is it possible that if you don't earn above a certain threshold gross income, you only pay state tax and not federal tax in America?

How much federal tax did you pay last year NS?

[HapSmo19]

Is it possible that if you don't earn above a certain threshold gross income, you only pay state tax and not federal tax in America?

Wait,....didn't you just say you wanted a more equal tax rate FOR ALL?

[notyou2]

Is it possible that if you don't earn above a certain threshold gross income, you only pay state tax and not federal tax in America?

Wait,....didn't you just say you wanted a more equal tax rate FOR ALL?

Surely you aren't that stupid.

[Juan_Bottom]

That's a f*cking stupid argument. MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO PAY NO INCOME TAXES ARE IN THE SOUTH, WHERE THE CONSERVATIVE POLITICIANS RULE.







This is a huge part of the reason why Southern States actually get more money back from the Federal Government than they pay in. The South itself is a welfare state. If Conservative programs are so awesome at creating wealth and equality, then you have to ask yourself why the whole Conservative region is one big fail block.
And again, it's the progressive liberal states who financially support them, and it's the progressive liberals who want to help these states to get their shit together. Otherwise we'd amend the laws to say a state can only get as much money back as they pay.

[thegreekdog]

Picture One:

Unless 100% of the people in those southern states vote and 100% of them vote Republican, there is no correlation between what those people make and how they vote.

Picture Two:

http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2011.htm

[Juan_Bottom]

Unless 100% of the people in those southern states vote and 100% of them vote Republican, there is no correlation between what those people make and how they vote.

I never said that there was and was very careful to say that Conservative politicians rule there. I did not say that poor Southerners vote for them. Odds favor that they won't.

Picture Two:

http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2011.htm

That's not the point. The point is that even safety net of minimum wage is a front, and is a reason why people who don't make much shouldn't have to pay income tax. Being poor doesn't make a person a freeloader.

The government's definition of poverty is based on total income received. For example, the poverty level for 2012 was set at $23,050 (total yearly income) for a family of four.[5] Most Americans (58.5%) will spend at least one year below the poverty line at some point between ages 25 and 75.[6]

Relative poverty describes how income relates to the median income, and does not imply that the person is lacking anything. In general the United States has some of the highest relative poverty rates among industrialized countries.[8] According to a 2008 report released by the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, on average, rates of poverty are persistently higher in rural and inner city parts of the country as compared to suburban areas.[9][10] The number of people in the U.S. who are in poverty is increasing to record levels with the ranks of working-age poor approaching 1960s levels that led to the national war on poverty.[11]

EDIT:

The states with the highest proportions of hourly-paid workers earning at or below the Federal minimum wage were Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas (all between 8 and 10 percent). The states with the lowest percentage of workers earning at or below the Federal minimum wage were Oregon, California, Washington, and Alaska (all under 2 percent). It should be noted that some states have minimum wage laws establishing standards that exceed the Federal minimum wage. (See table 2 and table 3.)

[Frigidus]

Sorry frigidus but your wrong. If a conservative speaks out their a hate Monger or racist. Liberals and democrats say everyone is equal just as long as you agree with them if I don't agree I'm an uneducated knuckle dragging mouth breather. Progressives believe in science as their religion since it is "Logical" before you know it eugenics is implemented and your unfit for reproduction. Georgia guide stones are a perfect example of such logic.

People that scream in your face and personally insult you if you disagree with them are not exclusive to one school of thought. As for the eugenics thing, that's just ridiculous. You do realize that people with different political views than you aren't all cartoon villains, right?

[Woodruff]

Sorry frigidus but your wrong. If a conservative speaks out their a hate Monger or racist. Liberals and democrats say everyone is equal just as long as you agree with them if I don't agree I'm an uneducated knuckle dragging mouth breather. Progressives believe in science as their religion since it is "Logical" before you know it eugenics is implemented and your unfit for reproduction. Georgia guide stones are a perfect example of such logic.

People that scream in your face and personally insult you if you disagree with them are not exclusive to one school of thought. As for the eugenics thing, that's just ridiculous. You do realize that people with different political views than you aren't all cartoon villains, right?

But SOROS!!!!

[tzor]

I love how the Conservative side of CC is just rehashing scare phrases over and over in here.

And i love how the young ones seem to make the most pointless observations again and again.

Irony alert because I just did the same and that means ... I wish, oh how I wish!

Nope, I'm still a 50+ year old fart.