So what the heck is a Progressive anyway?

2006-09-13T14:23:00.000-05:00

In a blog response to a story published on the KY3 Blogspot titled "Claire's Lefty Problem" a blogger with the handle of Progressive Vet started talking about what he felt a Progressive is.

It's worth repeating.

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ProgressiveVet said...

As we move around and talk to people, read the blogs, and in general participate in the routine communication of this mid term election year, there seems to be a lot of confusion about what a Progressive actually is.

So what the heck is a Progressive anyway? It's not something that seems to be a specific thing like a Republican, or a Democrat, or a Greenie, or what have you, because… a Progressive can actually be any of those.

So how do you recognize a Progressive if you see one? First of all, a Progressive is someone who is MOST interested in holding leadership accountable for:

wrong doing, and
conducting themselves according to the will of their constituents rather than ignoring them.

A Progressive is generally a person who has become fed up, dissatisfied, ticked off, maybe mad as hell, at what they feel are the ill workings of their previous party affiliation be it Republican or Democrat.

The numbers are growing dramatically nationwide due to the national crisis our country is in with fascist-oriented political gangsters on the GOP side and weak kneed Democrats on the other.

Progressives are now being born everywhere, everyday. I actually didn’t know what to call myself until about a year ago after employing my own individual voting policy of simply voting anti-incumbent for a few years.

You can recognize a Progressive because of the way they can’t resist standing up and speaking in a straight forward manner about exactly what’s on their mind. They don’t beat around the bush (jeez how I hate typing that word) or participate in the political gamesmanship.

We see black and white, and very few gray areas. Subjects are recognized as good or bad, but we do understand compromise within reason. We do not understand why anyone would allow political criminals to run amuck without drawing violations to the very direct attention of their constituents for repairs to be made at the ballot box at first opportunity, and continue the aggressive pursuit to hold the violators accountable in the appropriate processes of impeachment, indictment, conviction, and ultimate gallows hanging. Anything less is not acceptable to a Progressive.

We hold this strong opinion because we believe the government has become so full of unethical politicians that a general house cleaning is long past due. Because the Progressive element is new, and growing quickly, a lot of the old school, “ride the band wagon politicians,” typically Democrats, have begun to use the title, calling themselves Progressive, because it doesn’t have any political baggage yet.

It is easily recognized they do this to hide their own “didn’t get much done baggage” in the political fog as best they can. Even some of the more notable national leaders are doing this with Hillary as an easy example. Some of the local Green County Democrats do this as well.

Before people talk about Progressives they need to understand what and who they are talking about. The phonies who use the title need to understand what they actually are before representing themselves as Progressive… because it is just to easy to expose them with the questions involving what they believe can be done to hold leaders accountable, and what they are willing to do to accomplish that task.

Here’s a Progressive’s interpretation from the average answers received in Green County thus far.

Question: What is the most important issue of all?
Democrat response: Minimum wage, health care, labor issues, social security, there are lots of issues.
Progressive response: Rooting out the criminals, impeachment, hanging the sons of bitches.

Question: Why do you believe your issues as stated is the most important issue?
Democrat response: For the obvious reasons, we need to pursue the resolutions benefiting all Americans.
Progressive response: Accountability, impeachment, convictions, is the most important because if we don’t remove the criminals none of the other issues stand a chance of satisfactory resolution.

Question to Democrat: Do you support accountability to include impeachment?
Democrat response: Ummm… I’ll have to check with the hierarchy to see what the position is.

Question to Progressive: Do you support the issues of minimum wage, health care, etc.
Progressive response: Of course, but unfortunately those issues don’t have a chance to be resolved unless we can accomplish the most important issue of all, holding leaders responsible, and accountable.

It is easy to play with words here, but the bottom line is… Green County Democrats are going to continue failing in the most important national races unless they can learn to start standing up and shout back nose to nose with the supporters of political thugs.

You can’t avoid the major issues like the contrived Iraq War for the sake of profit and oil, and you can’t avoid the hard issues like holding incumbents accountable.

If the Democrats avoid talking about those two major items, they aren’t going win. Period, case closed.

Whether we want to admit this to ourselves or not, in our current national crises with criminal leaders, we are already in a civil war, and this very important mid term election will decide the course of the internal war with the right wing for probably the next several years.

It is my understanding the Democrats have already given up on the Roy Blunt race, and they are not even supporting the Democrat candidate. Why is that? Did they not do the advance planning to run a viable candidate, or do they just have a defeatist attitude to not even try?

Progressives, like many people, hate negative campaigns, but guess what the GOP is going to do over the next few weeks?

We recommend Claire spend some time out behind the barn to get mad enough to start talking about the Iraq War like several of the freshmen House candidates are doing nationwide, and charging forward in those races gathering votes like crazy.

The Ozarks, and much of Missouri are very Red neighborhoods, and what is there to lose? (At the Labor Day picnic we heard one of the young democrat candidates say… “Can’t lose what we never had, and we’ll still be here?” Sheesh! Betcha that guy won’t be around next time.)

Accountability? Openly talk about impeachment? Omigod! Run the for hills!

Someone is suggesting we go against the hallowed halls of our national mentors… the corporate oriented fascists on the Blue side of the aisle where we can’t tell the difference between a Democrat and a Republican.

Anyway, seriously, as far as we can tell Progressives are the only people around that seem to be making efforts to do anything outside of the local circle of friends.

Progressives are demonstrators.

Progressives ask the harder questions. Progressives prefer not to waste time just to preach to our own choir, or have a nice party.

Accountability is high on the priority list of wishes and wants, and we encourage the Democrats to get mad enough to stand up and start making some noise outside in the hallway and down the street.

You can drop all the flyers you want, but if you can’t stand up and talk loud to pound on the table, you are not going to win.

Responsibility and accountability of national leaders are the key words that the general public is listening for, even right here in Red SW MO.

The wave has begun nationally, and we hope the Green County folks will understand how to shift up, and start banging on the table. The silly little tricks of robo phones used against local candidates aren’t going to work, and you have to get mad enough to look somebody in the eye and talk louder.

U.S. Senate being prepped for Impeachment Proceedings

2006-09-13T10:00:00.000-05:00

From the Senate Floor Senator Carl Levin (D - Michigan) entered a laundry list of lies President Bush and his administration told to justify the war and subsequent occupation of Iraq.

As reported by blogger Bob Gieiger, "Levin has provided some bullet points that are good ammunition for the next time some Republican sycophant tells you such charges against Bush are purely political, rather than proof positive of what a despicable administration this has been for six years now. He also cites the report issued by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Friday that sheds yet more light on attempts by Bush to mislead Americans on the justification for invading Iraq."

According to Levin, "President Bush said Saddam and Al Qaeda were allies--his words. And that:

'You can't distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror.'

"The bipartisan report released today directly contradicts that linkage which the President has consistently made in his effort to build public support for his Iraq policy."

Read the laundry list of lies that are now part of the Senate Record to support future impeachment proceedings.

Missouri Progressive: Now Online

2006-09-11T12:39:00.000-05:00

Southwest Missouri Progressives are the future of the Democratic Party as Liberal Politicos (Republican-Lite) continue to lead Rank and File Democrats and Independent Minded Activists down the path of obscurity.

The purpose of Missouri Progressive (for now) is to highlight the growing struggle between Executive Types of the Democratic Party and the quickly Emerging Progressive Base.

The only way to Advance Progresive Issues on the Local, Regional and National Political Scene is to Force Issues, Encourage Open Dialogue and Debate, and Most Importantly Act in a Forthright Manner.