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  • "Progressive": A liberal republican. Joo hknows eets troo!

  • And if you buy that, I got ocean front property in Arizona!!!!

  • This is how this video should be narrated:

    Back when progressives were sending German and Japanese Americans to internment camps in violation of the Bill of Rights, they were also developing Social Security and seizing massive amounts of land in violation of Article one Section eight of the Constitution. Conservatives fought us every step of the way and now Social Security and the Great Scociety has bankrupted the US.

  • @CWSmith03111982 Bankrupted? U.S.'s economy and GDP is the largest on Earth....what the hell do you mean bankrupted??? More research!

  • @CWSmith03111982 To the "Progressives" who rule most of American Media:

    What happened?  Every chance you got, you bashed Bush over Iraq/Afghanistan...

    What about now? As of 6/24/2011, OBAMA has us involved in HOW MANY WARS?

    Speak up, hypocrites, speak up.

  • @AmiableAndy 4 wars now and wheres all the protesters tht took to the streets to get the troops home now?

    we are in Yemen fighting a "covert" war in Libya in Iraq and Afgan.. some president right?

  • America can't stay where it is or go back to when times were good. We have to make the current times we are living it better. I know it was great than and damn anyone saying it can't be now.

    Every American just simply must get the very best education they can. Parents move if you need to find the best place for your children to learn. An get jobs so you can have the kind of life you want. I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty. So why should anyone else? Be tough lets show what Americans can do.

  • @LordHannigan besides slavery and imperialism...America is pretty much doomed. It was doomed from the beginning.

  • @MrTTaylor25 Yeah doomed my butt.

  • @MrTTaylor25 NO it was doomed wen people took this freedom for granted and stopped following the constitution and stop having faith in god

  • Progressive = broke. The progressive kept us in the great depression longer than we would have if done nothing. Now they progressive is going for land grabs, attempting to close public lands off to the public for recreational use in the name of some green agenda. This add is a big lie.

  • some people havent leared us history and what the founders really wanted

  • It's ironic how history repeats itself. The communists were the first to coin the slogan "Progressive." There is not one progressive (socialist, communist, fascist) country in the world where the people are truly free(thats including America). The centralization of state power has been a disaster. Suffice to say, the freedom hating progressive 20th century, has also been one of the most bloody periods in human history.

  • Progressive ideology is not what America needs. If you have so many progressive laws you'll end up like Italy where you can't sit on a curb in the street or you could get a ticket. Also, conservatives are not some jerks who don't want to help people. They do! BUT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT STICK THERE NOSES IN IT. By having the government provide for you, it breeds a lazy, dependent, almost leech-like society where even people who can work, don't and cause people who do need help to suffer.

  • @21492006808905 They can't work thanks to your "help". It's YOU who have laws that steal freedoms in this country It's the conservatives who are the laziest yet greediest in this society, mismanaging their offices and running this economy into the ground, forcing "lazy" Americans out of work so they need public relief. We don't need your "help" and yes, you are jerks. And if you're worried about a ticket, don't park your lazy, lying, leeching ass on the curb.

  • I wrote a paper in college on Progressives and believe me they have applied an antiquated ideology for engels and Marx and it has been proven time and time again to regress humanity and cause utter poverty. Milton Friedman research the countries that were most progressive and he discovered that they were places like Hong Kong that allowed free market to flourish bringing people out of poverty and progress occure as a resul. READ FREE TO CHOOSE IT IS A REVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO AMERICA.

  • That is a lie, plan and simple.

    Words of Barack Obama and a progressives. His quote is perfect for this progressive ad because lies are what progress the progressives foward. Progressives will destroy this country if the people let them.

  • Modern progressives are pushing for nothing less than a complete socialist, 100% government controlled country.

    This will doom the U.S. forever. When the power is no longer held by the individuals in our country, and is turned into a collective power, the bureaucrats will ruin everything.

    One word sums up the progressive plan for America .....FAIL.

  • @kablooy1 Where did you kons learn (OK, mislearn) history? Progressivism has a proud history of empowering the people. Conservatism has a disgraceful record of championing the rights of the rich and the few most powerful corporations. Anyone who has ever studied history, sociology, political science, anthropology, economics, etc knows this. So fess up kons, where did you learn this ridiculous propaganda? Most likely, the school of Glenn Beck.

  • @maronfan

    Hitler was all for "empowering the people". I guess if that's your kind of goal, progressivism is the way to go for you. Don't expect me to conform to it though.

    If you had studied history you would see example after example of socialist organizations blaming all of societies problems on some other class of people.

  • Right-wingers just do not understand progressivism.

  • TheForewardGaze where did you get your information? You need to find a better source.

  • progressive=communism in America open your eyes folks read in between the lines cuz these people if they get the chance will brainwash you till the day you die i will not be brainwashed i am a conservative because i want to keep our freedoms and not have our government take them away from us without a fight

  • TheForwardGaze i take it you are on of those "youthful idiots" that never happened show me documented proof. I believe and this is only my opinion that it is people like you who believe our country was founded by evil people that will bring ruin to us all. Socialism n the surface sounds wonderful but when our rights to be free are taken is when you will turn around and think hrmmm ... maybe i was wrong

  • Before the Progressive Movement, when America was free, a God fearing Christian man could rent a 10 year old girl for a night of fun in any city in America. And then these Socialist-Progressive dictators put an end to it! They broke up corporate monopolies and cut the work day from 12 hours to only 8! Overtime pay!? Social Security!? They've ruined the country!

  • America at it's best, killing innocent babies

    by the millions is America at it's worst.

    Repent and stop killing innocent babies by abortion.

  • America at it's best, are you kidding me.

    Killing innocent babies by the millions each

    year is America at it's worst. To add insult

    to injury, some sick people actually promote abortion, the killing of innocent babies.

    Repent and stop killing innocent babies.

  • This is hilarious. Another lie. Teddy Roosevelt founded the Progressive Party and guess what.  He was a Republican. Democrats and Republicans are the same. But true Jeffersonian Republicanism allows individuals to govern themselves with out tyranny.

  • @pandabead That is a way over-simplistic view of progressives. Teddy was a Bull Moose progressive, which is NOT the only variety of progressive.

  • Britain declared war on Germany, yet that doesn't make us the best, america supported us all the way, I don't know why people fight about who are best, I personally think: Britain and america combined are the most Badass team ever. BETTER THAN GHOSTBUSTERS MUST I SAY!?!?!

  • i must comment to that saying: Brittain declared war on Germany AFTER the germans invaded France following the invasion of austria,sudettenland and Poland, i don't have anything against America nor the UK but it would be all better for us if we worked together

  • What is the target audience of this video? ...more to the point— what is the target AGE demographic that this video was meant to influence?

    C'mon, people. Let's talk to eachother as if we are adults.

  • Americans are up therselfs

  • Too right

  • Do your research republicans/coservatives helped get womens rights, and pay more for coservation than liberals/democrates do. Most coservatives hunt, so the money they pay for hunting liscence goes right back into the environment. Open your eyes people democrates will bring the end of America either by limiting our military greatly, or making our government like europes.

  • How exactly will limiting our military or making our government more like Europe's bring about the end of America? Europe is a fine continent to live on. Also, wouldn't it be nice to live in a country where you aren't fighting a major war every decade?

    Obama '08

  • yeah right look at the facts yes it might be nice to not fight a war but if you haven't notice while he is distracting you with that little dream that he will take us out of wars he will take away your freedom your right to speak freely your rights in general so tell our president that and maybe read up on some history sooner or later there will be more wars it is unavoidable deal

  • We now have a tax rate higher than Canada and a 30+ trillion dollar debt in government promises, Thanks Progressives.

    "The New Deal was a failure?

    You're a fucking dope.

    I don't know what moron planted that idiotic thought in your simple mind."

    I know who put that thought in your mind, it was your public school history teacher. Wilson's Federal bank put us in the great depression, and FDR's New Deal didn't get us out.

  • Haha, I love how all the conservative comments are completely illiterate on this video. This advertisement is advancing a political agenda, but it's true - progressives fight for civil rights and equality, and conservatives take us backwards. And you can't say you're better off now than eight years ago, Bush's presidency has been a disaster. And McCain just wants to continue his failed policies.

  • K first of all health care for alll is inconcivible if u look at the 'progrsive' canidates Hilary and Obama U will notice a great difference in health care plans Hilary u have to get ealth insurance and pay for it Obama's plan is to make it more affordable to get health insurance

  • o ya health care to make us all equal in the constioun it says were created epual not not at the finsh we wont still be equal in ways.i really dont want the same health care as that hobo under the freeway. o ya and progressives thanks for hillARY SHE CAN HELPS US TO OUR DOOM

  • So because you don't want the same health care as "that hobo under the freeway," that means you get quality health care and he is left to rot?

    You are one pathetic creature. If you don't agree with the video then why are you here? Just to annoy people? Go back to hoarding your money and making fun of homeless people, but not here please.

  • once again honey you are being brainwashed read between the lines Obama doesn't want to help you he wants to help himself

  • @jadegypsybloodone Your comment reveals that the Neo-Cons have reduced American Life to a big money grab.

    Their GOP = Guns, Oil and PoverTea Parties

    See you in hell!

  • listen harri - agnel nastazia

  • All of us who are Americans - liberals, progressives and conservatives, love America. We just see things differently and have different views on how to make it better.

  • can't disagree there.

  • however, I'm not so sure that the "opulent minority" that the GOP supports loves America as much as a blue-collar idealist

  • Um, no, conservitards would take us down the shitter real fast.

  • i agree, yet your namecalling only causes trouble

  • To say that all of us Americans want to make a better country is retarded! There are those who are selfish and want a monopoly on progress. And those people are usually conservative capitalists. I know, I'm one of them.

  • Look, this country was started by revolutionaries. You don't think that the founding father's would have wanted us to question, to use our minds, to explore different ways of structuring our society? They were very wary of the landed aristocracy, the military, corporations (East India Trading Company, religion, etc. I think that it is supremely American to question and to be open to points of view from all over the world. That's why I'm proud to be a progressive American.

  • i am with you there

  • yeah your proud to help our young ones from being brainwashed real low

  • @musicmars no they LEFT SOCIALISM for AMERICAN... the land of the free.. read some history, the founders warned of too much govt control. hense what they left in england. and you can use your mind with out actually defacing and stumping all over America. you could try to progess south to Venezuela and see if you enjoy progession... or you could read some history and realize whats here. and how sometimes changes leads to bad stuff.

  • @m4nikm4ti Changes lead to good stuff also....or do you not like women's suffrage???

  • @musicmars so your for having complete control over every aspect of peoples lives to heard them in your views by regulated them till theres only one path...the founding fathers where for man ruling themselves not your twisted veiws.

  • Please name 2 Islamic Dictatorships.

    You know less about the region than even I do.

    Check country profiles at CIA dot Gov

    I see Republics...I see Monarchies.

    Do you think those Governments are filled with Progressives or Conservatives?

  • The ALCU has an excellent record with fighting for religious freedom. You're just upset that they don't fight for your religion ABOVE all others. You are full of pride and conceit. You are a pretender of Liberty.

  • Oh boo hoo....

  • Oh Yeah, I voted for Ronnie and Bush Senior and McCain in the Primary to try and keep that idiot son from being the our court appointed President.

    So I know, one of us has grown.

  • You're not suggesting that attacking Iraq has made us any safer are you?

  • You would to give up liberty for security.

    I'm sorry that you are so afraid.

  • People exercise their liberty to fight for their security. Funny how you think creating equal opportunity as handing over freedom. Just because it doesn't benefit you, stupid capitalist. Your crack pot theory is falling down right before your eyes stop acting like a minority hoarding capital is to our benefit. The working class is using it's voice and yes we use the state because we have no other means. Is it really that hard to understand? We all can't afford to be idealists and elitists sir.

  • so you found god? Is that why you have a hair across your ass?

  • ACLU fights for liberties. If that is distastful; you should really think about what your TRUE values are.

    Liberty or Conformity?

  • I would have thought you'd be upset with the Governments warrentless wire taps.

  • Yah..those progressives...always having a good old fashion book burnings...no wait..I'm wrong that's the Con-party.

    Are you brighter than the President?

  • Women's won the early right to vote from Midwestern, Conservative States. Unfortunately it took until 1920, after the Progressive movement ended, for the 19th Amendment

    National Parks: Theodore Roosevelt, Republican; Expanded by Nixon, Republican actually the leaders for for National Parks.

    Socail Security is going to Bankrupt this country. We are already at a 2 worker for 1 recipient ratio... won't be long before it's 1 to 1, or worse. The New Deal was a failure.

  • Have to say you were doing fine until you got to SS. Boomers have been paying MORE than they would have been to save up what would be needed for them. It was all done during the Raygun years when the Republics were all getting the vapors over SS. The only problem is the Repubs borrowing the money to fund their immense growth of the government. Borrow and spend, that's the Repubs.

  • Social Security's design is the problem. You make the assumption that the Boomers were paying the same rates we are now, that is simply not true. They paid into a system where there were 10 workers for every recipient. The Baby Boomer Generation is simply too big for the current working population to support on Social Security, it has nothing to do with Republicans or Democrats. The problem is the design.

  • No, the problem is the politicians borrowing the money that was supposed to be put back to take care of the Boomers, paid BY THE BOOMERS for decades. You know, how you save money up to pay for something in the future. When they say "bankrupt" what they really mean is SS will start drawing on what was SUPPOSED to be saved, not that there will be no money. The Repubs use that work to instill fear in everyone.

  • I think its pretty obvious that Republicans weren't always backwards and Democrats weren't always progressive. That was then...this is now.

  • T Roosevelt & Nixon were progressive Republicans back when you guys allowed moderates in the party. Teddy eventually left the Republican Party & ran as a Progressive. Nixon was a supporter of the New Deal,Social Security,universal healthcare,FTC breaking up large corporations,70% tax bracket on the rich,excise profit tax,unions,tariffs to protect American jobs,clean air/water initiatives,Earth Day,abortion,etc. You guys wouldn't let him in your paty these days.

  • Shows how far the Republican Party has gone to the far, far right. Today, it's only a party for the ultra-rich elites.

  • exactly

  • The New Deal was a failure?

    You're a fucking dope.

    I don't know what moron planted that idiotic thought in your simple mind.

  • We need a mixture of socialism and capitalism , along with democracy. Socialism works well for some things, capitalism for others, and democracy lets us choose which to apply depending on the needs.

  • @splashy9 This is how Europe runs itself now, somewhat.

  • @TheAqui1a That's why Europe has a fiat paper currency mounting debt and a failing welfare state. In one-hundred year progressivism and socialist has KILLED Europe's great culture. Now they need to import immigrants to have a sustainable birthrate! In one hundred more years Europe won't look like it has been for the last 6 thousand years...

  • @wtfjaftw Neither will U.S.A. I give the U.S. another 50 years then it will plummet tremendously.

  • @MrTTaylor25 Exactly thats what Im saying just sooner! Welfare state ANYWERE! Fails!

  • @splashy9 What are you talking about? How is the government in ownership of anything a good thing? What are you crazy? The reason why the economy is in mess is because the government and corporation are in bed with each other! That is not free-market capitalism that is corporatism! And lynch-rule democracy is only going to get us into deeper trouble! We need to go back to the roots of our country and get the government off our backs! RON PAUL 2012!!!!!

  • :P good

  • My guess is that you wouldn't know socialism if you tripped over it.

  • Actually, I've known many socialists personally and intellectually - they were all good people who worked for justice and fairness. My guess is that you wouldn't know true capitalism if you tripped over it.

  • socialism is good in ideal, however it never really quite works out the way everyone wants it too. Please take a look at the history of 'socialist' countries before you jump the gun. Also, 1984 would also be an excellent book for you to read if you really think socialism would make the world a better place.

  • Thanks for that incredibly in depth personal observation. I too hate many things, although socialism is not one of them.

  • honestly, some college professors stop their lesson to bash democracy and promote communism in every light. i am not "channeling McCarthy's ghost", McCarthy was a crazed loon who actually did find communists simply due to the fact that he accused everyone.

  • "some college professors stop their lesson to bash democracy and promote communism"

    Oh clueless one: First, I'll be you've never been to college. Second, "democracy" and "communism" are not opposites. "Democracy" and "capitalism" are not synonyms. Democracy, like dictatorship, is a theory of government, not an economic system. Communism was invented to counter the very real abuses of unregulated capitalism of the 18th and 19th centuries. Obviously, it had its faults.

  • Just look what giving women the vote has done to this country: Americans are no longer unified about the constitution (women won't read it and rarely research ANY issue, but they're LOADED with "opinions" that we're supposed to respect). Allowing women to vote has caused the federal government to explode in size and POWER because politicians now pander to feminine idiots who are obsessed with feelings, security, and being "taken care of."

  • The women's right to vote should never have been denied in the first place. The Problems have nothing to do with Women. It has to do with the disdain that the "Center For American Progress," and all other George Soros funded groups, have for this country, for the Constitution. Progressives are trying to pull out failed policies from the past. Personally, I believe in the American People, they don't they want a Nanny State Government to take care of the People.

  • This was a reply to MACpistoldotcom

  • To the person who posted this: FUCK YOU. you obviously never dealt with american healthcare. all CEOs of big healthcare industries should be put in jail for crimes against humanity. and this mother fucker wants to give them more customers. they need to be obliterated. because they care about money and thats it. they dont care if you get the right bill, or if your leg gets broken. they in fact want you to get your leg broken. DISGUSTING!

  • AAHH!!! what the fuck. "providing healthcare for everyone". ya i am sure the healthcare CEOs will like that. fuck healthcare! Its a fucken joke! they rob and kill people for money!!!

  • I was hoping to vote for one of these because I'm open minded.. however I cannot because every one of these videos groups all Conservatives as if they are all the same.

    Libertarians and Republicans with an open mind and see the injustice being wrought by the Neocons and NeoLibs hate Bush, Cheney, Ollie North, the Clintons, and back to Wilson (but we admire JFK because he tried to fight the Federal Reserve Bank but the Neos killed him).

  • Let's face it.

    America is being left behind.

    France, Norway, England, and Canada all have better health care systems. Some of them even have more democracy.

    Backwards conservative ideology and too much emphasis on the profit motive are holding us back while the world surges ahead.

    In the meantime, bush/Cheney is gutting our constitution and undermining the rule of law that allowed us to make progress in the past.

  • socialists...go to europe and take a look at their univeral healthcare, paying out the ass for sub par care. Enough already with the handouts....and social security, talk about a scam, im just praying that it is privatized in the net decade so this 23 year old can actually see a check when i decide to retire.

  • I'll go to Europe when you go to some free market paradise like El Salvador where the rich ruling class that you love so much can do anything they want - free from the rule of law. There was never one country w a middle class built on free trade and free markets and there never will be one. The solution is regulated capitalism as practised here, Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan, etc. That leaves the 3rd world for you buddy.

  • Hmm, if it is so bad there, why do so many of them seem so happy about it, live longer, and have all kinds of better stats?

    In fact, the poorest people in Britain have better health than the richest ones here in the US. So much for being a worse system.

  • that's why so many people actually come to America for their Healthcare right? That's why Britain actually has to ration their healthcare in order to afford it? Why do they have to pull their own teeth instead of seeing a dentist?

  • They don't come here any more. Have you noticed how many have been going to other countries FROM the US because they can't pay for the care here?

    Oh, and we have rationed care here, between those that are uninsured, those that can't be insured because of pre-existing conditions, and those that are denied care by the insurance companies. It's based on whether you can pay or not.

    Look at our stats, we are ranked 37th. That's pathetic.

  • We are the Center for American Progress.

    And we plan on making this progress by taxing you like crazy, destroying your right to take care of your own health, and keeping your hard earned money in a gov't account and passing it out to other people.

  • If you don't like the CAP or Moveon, why are you here? Do you get your kicks spreading your negativity? I'm not going over to your conservative/reich-wing vid's and dissing you, so if you can't offer something of value, LEAVE.

  • I would be very happy that someone from the other side is watching these videos. Maybe if you did the same, you would realize how stupid videos are that say conservatives bad, progressives good. When in reality both sides want to help people but have different methodology

  • Progressive? Umm what happen to just being American. You know small government, liberty, having rights. Isn't that what our constitution says? I not sure about you guys, but my votes are for Ron Paul!

    Ron Paul 08!!!

  • Ron Paul is a religious nut and a corporatist.

    If he's so great, why won't he demand impeachment?

    He's just another republican. He sucks.

  • He won't because the time is not right yet... You see... Bush has self appointed powers like Directive 51. If we start impeaching his core, he just may well enact it after giving a self inflicted wound to our country (Nuke). Ron Paul wrote up HR3835 (which most of the Dems have signed on to.. Repub sigs being obtained right now) which will remove self appointed presidential powers.

  • change doesn't happen unless someone takes action instead of just talking, this is liberal shit

  • We should be neither progressive nor conservative; we need to be Americans. We need think each vote throughly and make them based both on the benefits and drawbacks, not just on the party who supports it.

  • If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal." -- John F. Kennedy

  • who isn't a "Liberal" then? I think it's extremely silly to demonize one's opposition by trying to say that you care about people but the other side just doesn't. And any suggestion that someone doesn't care people because they have a different idea on how to help others is moronic.

  • This is another example of idiotic genralized slander from one side to the other.. it's pathetic. Both sides need to stop this BS.

  • through pressure of conformity, we have freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from

  • FDR was president during the longest recession ever and this makes him a good president????

    The common propaganda is that he got us out of the depression. Ever consider that the depression lasted so long because of him.

    No one since FDR has reacted to recessions the same way as FDR and we don't have very big ones anymore. Weird Huh

  • again your only thinking of the money.Millions of Americans where bankrupted,jailed,killed i mean it was illegal to OWN gold.but the freaking goverment can own gold and thus america ended..we are owned with a Kings Council.everyone is a rentr tenat of the land

    we cant just buy land and retire grow some corn maybe start a family ..you have to pay taxes and fees so most small land owners have full time jobs paying income tax or the IRS comes takes your land.

  • Coolidge and Hoover, both scumpublicans, caused the Depression. FDR fixed it.

  • Lasting 9 more years during his administration is fixing? That sounds like lasting longer to me

  • It lasted for years before he took over too. And worse, the republican Supreme Court he inherited shot down every reform he tried to implement, for several years. That's what slowed down the progress. The evil that men do lives after them, and that's especially true of conservatives.

  • The Supreme Court has too many Judges that are far-right biased, I agree.. but you're still incorrectly grouping all conservatives together. The Justice dept. has been overtaken by partisan BS and essentially disabled the enforcing of checks and balances, the Judicial branch has mostly planted far-right or far-left CFR members, much of the Senate and House members are paid off by NWO and/or lobbyists.

    Reform must occur... Our founding fathers would be shameful of us.

  • "incorrectly grouping all conservatives"

    My point is that it IS correct. Conservatism is not a political philosophy, it is a perverted outlook on life.

    What we are experiencing right now is the logical and inescapable result of conservatism. In recent history alone, the progression from Nixon to Reagan to Bush to Bush has been one conservative "victory" after another. The situation we have gotten into is INEVITABLE when conservatives rule.

    Dozens of examples throughout history show it.

  • Don't you understand our country has been fighting the corrupt international bankers.. Even President Lincoln stated that the bankers were a far worse enemy than the Southern Confederacy. Do you really think they haven't infiltrated the Liberal party as well? Seriously, Keep your guard up even in your own party.. we are being misled, both sides are being manipulated.

  • What liberal party? There certainly isn't one in this country.

    IMO, 60% of the Democrats have been corrupted, vs. 100% of the Republicans. The chance that we as a nation will recover from this seems small. Not zero, but not great either. I hope we do.

    Regarding Lincoln, perhaps he made a mistake, should have let the South go. Would have saved a lot of lives, and they probably would have come crawling back eventually anyway. There was no industry in the South.

  • IMO, 75% of the Democrats running for president have been corrupted, vs. 92% of the Republican candidates are corrupt.

    As for the people that have been either misled or too stubborn to research the problems facing America and the are blind to the violations against the Constitution (I even have relatives that are far right and far left that ALL refuse to think about the issues) I'd say about 60% of both sides are ignorant, 25% are too stubborn discuss in open format, 15% are open minded.

  • "60% of both sides are ignorant, 25% are too stubborn discuss in open format, 15% are open minded"

    I can't really argue with that.

  • you didn't read about Paleoconservatism.

  • ok so it lasted a long time before he took over. And then it continued to last long after he took over and didn't truly end until the end of WWII when he was already dead. So where's the proof that he brought us out? Look at recessions now they come and go in a year and you want me to believe that he helped although it took 9 years

  • It will take longer than that to dig ourselves out of the hole that Reagan and Bush have put us in.

    We may never get out. We might be looking at the beginning of the end of the United States as the preeminent economic power.

    Another ten years, we'll be playing second fiddle behind Europe. Ten more after that, we (and Europe) will be behind China. Ten after that, we'll be fourth, after China, Europe, and India. South America and Africa are coming on strong.

  • and that has nothing do with whether or not FDR's policy actually got the U.S. out of the depression. Also, the economy is not a NASCAR rally just to let you know.

  • Fuck conservatives. =)

  • Fuck you to.

  • "Too" I believe you meant?

    At least liberals don't screw up the planet. =)

  • I thought progressives were kind of cool, but after speaking with many of you here, I'm finding a much closed minded set of people that only want to group all conservatives as the same. that's like saying all Liberals are the same. There are good and bad in each party. This is the problem with being in the middle. Each side hates you for critically evaluating all side and working for pure compromise on the tough issues. Don't just every person of a party as if we're all alike. That's ignorant.

  • I'm not progressive. I just commented on the video because I came upon it.

    If I must be labled, the closest would be liberal. However, I hate all humans and think we should all die.

    There is no compromising and solving problems when there are humans involved. It's just not possible.

  • NeoConservatives have given us a bad name, just as NeoLiberals have given Liberals a bad name. Look to the middle for answers.

  • in fact, once you get into college, you will be bombarded by idiot professors who think communism is the only way.

  • Idiot professors? Communists? Wow, you had better run and look, there might be a red under your bed. Wake up man, you're still living in the 50's and channelling McCarthy's ghost. Calling all progressive social change communist is an old and very ugly tactic used by the elites to stifle real change.

  • progressives... what a deceitful name.

  • like "conservative"?

  • communist governments only have dictators. and for people who think Bush is a dictator, wait until you are ruled by a real one. communism, like Cuba. Cubans escape Cuba for a reason. their police can kill people with mere suspicion. people have no freedoms in communistic governments.

  • Calling Bush a dictator is giving him too much credit.

  • Wait till he enacts Directive 51... then he really will be a dictator and American citizens will die. We would need to come together like never before to fight such a corruption of our government.

  • LOL this is funny.

  • hahaha, i almost thought this was a commercial for Progressive auto insurance. wow.

  • Wooot! =D

  • This is all shit anyway. The bankers and oil tycoons have had the mass of sheep and its diseased captive audience controlled since the advent of the Sumerian events. The issues aren't progressive or conservative because they aren't new issues. Conservative on bullshit tax, but progressive on destroying the environment. Progressive on bullshit tax, conservative on the environment. Nothing like creating a paradox out of thin air huh. Yea

  • its a political ad. don't get to exicited.

  • I couldn't agree more. If progressives were honest, they'd call themselves communists.

  • Hell yeah! It's about time progressives start fighting back!

  • I vote deconstruction government, Ron Paul.

    If people want to kill the planet and die, then so be it. If they want to survive and at least get along, then so be it. The way we have it today is destruction by government and it's religion. At least without a government we'd have a chance at peace and utilize our own gages together. Governments are so outdated, they simply don't do much anything anymore, if ever did.

  • Get real man. No society exists without government. Without governmet corporations, private armies and gangs would rule. It would be like going back to the dark ages.

  • "Without governmet corporations, private armies and gangs would rule."

    That's just what's happening now!

  • That's why we need a President that believes in good government, not cronie capitalism.

  • Ron paul would eliminate the corrupt non-constitutional parts of the Government. You exaggerate his position. Ron Paul (as Thomas Jefferson, Paine, Franklin) have stated before that if the Govt. has too much power they will utilize fear and the people (which they are supposed to serve) will turn it around to where the People will serve the Govt. in fear) Which is what's happening now. We believe in Govt. but it's gotten out of control and violated parts of the Constitution daily.

  • Ron Paul is a corporatist and a religious authoritarian. He believes people should have just as much freedom as corporations allow, and no more.

    Paul would let corporations own literally EVERYTHING. You want clean air and water? Pay for it. You want "free speech"? Pay for it.

  • Simply.....ummmm no

  • I'm a Ron Paul supporter wrecker, but I have to downvote you because either you don't really understand his positions or your planting an incorrect view of him.

  • Thats okay,

    Everything seems primed for collapse anyway.

    I have many talents and will survive unless they hit their bunkers and gas/nuke the surface.

    All this gang shit and terrorist shit are all lies. These people are sick of oppression and being fucked with. Not one person aside from Ron Paul has reiterated what Osama has said. Others just plant their own scare tactic lies on the screen.

    Game Over

  • well stated. :)

  • Go to Atlanta and try to say that gang shit is a bunch of lies. And while some may turn to violence because of oppression, most join gangs/terrorist organizations because they want to have some power/glory for themselves, not because they want to 'fight the power'.

  • Was in Atlanta last year for a couple Red Sox vs Braves games.

    Went cruising the downtown area late night and early morning. Walked all the way back to the hotel straight through, no problems that I ran into.

    Lived in a few cities where part of the scenery is a few shooting drugs in the back of a beetle bus. Worked w/and been around many people that could be considered scary.

    I can't say there is somebody on this earth, or perhaps off it, that I either don't or couldn't understand.

  • Ron Paul has a few good ideas but he has voted along with Republicans 75% of the time while not voting at all 23.5%. He is rated the best candidate for businesses and corporations. The majority of his money comes from Corporate PACs. He is a Grover Norquist wet dream.

  • There's a difference between Neoconservative and Paleoconservative.. wake up, don't group them all together.. the Neocons hate the Paleocons.

    Vote for Ron Paul 2008.. look at what he wants to do for our constitution and government. He and Democrat Mike Gravel and Kucinich should be in power.

  • Unity 08'!!!!

  • Considering it's a good term, I'd say thank you.

  • Are you serious? Do you think for one moment that anyone is buying this thinly-veiled BS? You can run from the label LIBERAL but we all know you can't shed it because you've earned it a thousand times over.

  • Progressives rock, Cons get us killed so they can get rich.

  • There's a difference between Neoconservative and Paleoconservative.. wake up, don't group them all together.. the Neocons hate the Paleocons.

  • No, they are at heart the same. A neocon is a paleocon with power.