Articles Tagged “progressives”
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Where Are Today’s Responsible Democrats?
BY KENNETH WELLS We need Democrats, both progressive and moderate, to come back to the party and participate at all party levels. For too long, Democrats in solid blue states, as well as those states that were almost equally divided between progressives and conservatives, have become apathetic. We have now reached a point of near [...]
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Echoes Of FDR
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The Last Lap
BY VERN TURNER Here we go into the last weeks of the 2012 election cycle with both major parties embroiled in a massive propaganda war while third and fourth parties scream about being shut out of the debate process. It looks like this will be a billion dollar-plus cycle with money pouring this way and [...]
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Take Heart, Conservatives: It’s Not Your Fault
BY VERN TURNER Someone smart once said that all politics are local. The politics around my town are decidedly conservative – that is, the people who actually think and function as real people see themselves as being fiscally conservative, religious and nurturing of precious commodities like their childrens’ education and honest representation. Even though I [...]
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Public Education: An Instrument Of Democracy
BY ED CANNADAY The demonization of opposing viewpoints often illuminates the deficiencies of the ultra-right-wing arguments against progressivism. Rightwing conservatives like to paint a picture of progressives as possessed of a sense of entitlement, ignorant of the value of a dollar or the toil of a hard days’ work. This distorted portrayal of hardworking Americans [...]
