Tag: progressives

“You have to be all sorts of twisted to think ‘making poor people more comfortable’ is a bad thing.”

Americans are hungry for change, as evidenced by what happened on Election Day.

Silence or grumbling acquiescence as the Biden presidency takes shape would amount to a political repetition disorder of the sort that ushered in disastrous political results under the Clinton and Obama administrations.

History teaches that progress takes time, those standing on the sidelines making unrealistic demands and criticizing those doing the work are only slowing it down.

Will we cooperate and try to bring Biden and his administration towards our way of thinking, or shall we strike out on a new road towards the social democracy that many of us want?

Bernie Sanders was the catalyst for galvanizing the grassroots progressive power that propelled his 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. As this century enters its third decade, the torch needs to be grasped by others to lead the way.

We progressives cannot just sit there. We need to organize, and do it now, in order to be ready for whatever comes our way.

War preparations that increase the likelihood of war may excite laptop warriors. But the militarism they promote is madness nonetheless.

With more progressives than ever in the country’s federal government, there may be an opportunity for the United States to really re-evaluate its foreign policy and place in the world.

Those who denounce the fight for a progressive agenda are telling us that, in essence, they don’t want much to change.