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The Next Progressive Era

A century ago, Americans faced a raft of challenges much like today's: asset bubbles and crashes, predatory lending and financial goliaths, to name but a few. The progressives of that era, however,...  
 
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vampirekiller9283 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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The so-called "progressives" are actually the root of the problems in the United States. Progressives have been the dominant shaper of our urban politics (look at the wreckage of our cities) our public schools (look at the ignorance of even our college graduates and our high incarceration rates) and look at our vast federal and state debts.

PRogressivism is anti-human, anti-social, and politically and economically corrosive.
mayt7 (6 months ago) Show Hide
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These are all great ideals and your ultimate goals are certainly noble (on the surface)...but there are two huge problems with your "solutions. First, where will the government get the money to pay for all of these programs? And the second problem, which actually supersedes the first, is...under what Constitutional authority are all of these programs justified?
namelessronin (5 months ago) Show Hide
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Agreed. I'm generally skeptical that progressivism is the antidote for America's economic downturn.

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