Mostly seems like ‘whine a lot about how little power we have to stop the fascism that we have appeased for years’ these days…
What is the progressives current platform? What is the oldest example of the progressive platform thst you know of?
Submitted 1 month ago by Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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libra00@lemmy.world 1 month ago
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well, you know, they’ve tried nothing, and they’re all out of it ideas.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If I had to chose between that and, “we should just be the GOP but lose more” you know my choice.
libra00@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Por que no los dos? This isn’t a pick-one situation, it’s a both situation.
realcaseyrollins 1 month ago
Pro LGBT
Anti Capitalism
Pro immigration
Soft on crime
High taxes
Pro renewable energy
Pro censorship
Pro equality
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Progressive’s current platform is what used to be George W. Bush’s. Every election, they keep shifting further and further to the right.
EditsHisComments@lemmy.world 1 month ago
While the American Left has been shifting right for the past few decades, were you even around during W. Bush’s presidency? Progressive today want exactly what W. Bush campaigned against - proper climate policies and social / welfare safety nets.
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was born during Nixon. Democrats talk about climate change while doing nothing to mitigate it. Biden’s proxy wars in Ukraine and Gaza has been a huge contribution to future climate issues. The material conditions of the marginalized still suck when a Dem is in office. They don’t care about them either.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
People who downvote this haven’t had a look at the Labour Party in the UK lately.
vvilld@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m not debating the the Democratic Party has moved to the right over the past decade. However, (a) I wouldn’t call the Democrats Progressive, and they never really have been. There is a fringe of the party that is progressive, but they’ve never been the majority or leadership. And (b) both progressives and the Democratic Party are still to the left of George W Bush on most issues. He campaigned on a same-sex marriage constitutional amendment. He was a climate denier. He fabricated evidence of WMDs in Iraq in order to start his second of what would become decades-long wars. He opened Gitmo. He institutionalized a torture program as policy. None of that is anywhere close to what progressives are pushing for now.
I guess my main question to you is this: who are you defining as ‘progressives’?