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[Baculus]

@pandabead You don't seem to understand that progressivism has been a REFORM movement, especially towards government waste and corruption. Read about Robert Lafollette, who was a Republican. After all, the core progressives at the turn of the 19th/20th century were Republican as well. Even before that, the early party had a more progressive character, including the black caucus that you mentioned in another post. It's funny, but you are supporting progressives while condemning them!

[Baculus]

@pandabead You have the nerve to talk about "brainwashing" when all of your points are either fabricated, exaggerated, or nothing close to the truth. You rail about progressives, without showing any indicated that you understand progressive history. You talk about early Republicans, without realizing that some of them were socialists. You talk about George Soros, a Jew, being a Nazi sympathizer, and all the while, mashing your caps-locked keyboard. You represent the uninformed right-wing.

[Baculus]

@pandabead BTW, you complete and utter fool, George Soros, whose real family name is Schwartz, is a Hungarian JEW. He was thirteen when the Germans invade Hungary: to suggest he was a Nazi sympathizer is the sort of right-wing tripe that people like you believe, even though it is totally ridiculous. Soros has spent millions in helping ANTI-COMMUNIST Eastern Europe, and has helped many other pro-democracy groups around the world. The hatred that people like you have for Soros is pathetic.

[Baculus]

@pandabead Progressive reforms such as the forty hour work week/8-hour day, child labor reforms, woman's suffrage, health and food inspection, safety standards for workers, direct elections, urban reforms in civil government, on and on. Do you think Americans DON'T want these?! No, progressives PUSHED for civil rights. And you don't know ANYTHING about communism if you think progressives are "communists," because progressives are not "revolutionary and have different aims. CAPS LOCK MAN!

[Baculus]

@pandabead Your problem is that you are incapable of making any sort of distinctions between groups. Some conservatives are in the KKK -- are ALL conservatives in the Klan? Are all conservatives racist because some conservatives are racist? What about the fact that some British and American business conservatives believed in Eugenics (which is ignored fact). Does that mean YOU do? And no, Americans are not "catching" on the progressives, because Americans APPRECIATE progressive reforms.

[Baculus]

@pandabead You don't realize you are falling into the same mental trap as Glenn Beck. Eugenics, which was a "parlor" issue of so-called "upper society," was adhered by progressives AND industrialists. But eugenics was most certainly NOT adhered by the populist progressives who championed the poor and the lower class, which were often the targets of Eugenics. There is nothing "progressive" about Eugenics, and it is antithesis to the philosophy and wholly rejected by the greater movement.

[Baculus]

@pandabead That was NOT the legislation that was passed in 1964. Also, the Republican party of the 1860s is NOT the same party as today. After all, the GOP, in its right-ward tilt, is rejecting many of the progressive roots of the Republican party, especially when you considered that LEFTISTS made up many of the early Republicans. Read this book called "Red Republicans" which talks about that. With this in mind, I have no idea why you are championing the 19th century Republican party.

[pandabead]

@Baculus i HAVE READ YOU PLANKS IT IS COMMUNISTIC. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A TIME IN THE HISTORY WHERE A COMMUNIST PARTY CHANGE THE NAME TO PROGRESSIVISM. READ THE HISTORY OUT OF BOOK FROM SCHOLARS NOT HIGH SCHOOL. AND STOP READING HISTORY FROM SOROS AND PADESTA FOUNDATIONS. SOROS WAS A NAZI SYMPATHIZER. HE IS GOOD AND ERASING THE TRUE HISTORY.

[pandabead]

@Baculus YES IT WAS. LOOK IT UP. A REPUBLICAN DEVELOPED THE LEGISLATION. THE FIRST CIVIL RIGHTS BILL WAS CONSTRUCTED BY THE BLACK CAUCUS IN THE 1860'S BOY SOROS SURE KNOWS HOW TO BRAINWASH PEOPLE.

[pandabead]

@Baculus YOU MEAN LIKE THE EUGENICS, MARGARET SANGER AND YOU ILK. STOP USING MARTIN LUTHER KING AND LINCOLN TO PROMOTE YOU DELUTED IDEOLOGY. AMERICANS ARE CATCHING ON TO THE PROGRESSIVES. YOU IMPLEMENTED EUGENICS, YOU DENIED CIVIL RIGHTS, YOU ARE THE COMMUNISTS. GET REAL. I DID NOT LEARN THIS FROM GLENN BECK. I LEARN IT IN MY HISTORY OF SCIENCE CLASS AT A PROMINENT UNIVERSITY. SHUT UP I AM NOT DUMB. BUT YOU ARE FOR BELIEVING THIS SHIT.