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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Putting that slanted definition aside, can anyone articulate for me a comprehensive "Progressive" platform? I hear so many people use the term, but nobody ever defines it. The term itself suggests a never ending movement, but to what end? If we took "progressive" policies as far as they can go, where exactly would they go? Is it ultimately socialism? I honestly don't know what all these waterheads throwing the term around on television are talking about. "Conservative" is a little easier to understand since Buckley pretty well defined it, so I understand one of the battling ideologies, but a concrete definition of it's opponent's aims and goals and planks seems to elude me.
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I would have to say that the Republican Party did it best in 1928, when they promised a vote for Hoover would lead to "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage."
Can't get much more progressive than that, can you?
