Comments on: What’s the Matter with Massachusetts? http://whatsthematterwithkansas.com/2010/01/whats-the-matter-with-massachusetts/ Documentary film based on Thomas Frank's best-seller Sun, 08 Apr 2012 01:27:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Willy Nazario http://whatsthematterwithkansas.com/2010/01/whats-the-matter-with-massachusetts/comment-page-1/#comment-421 Willy Nazario Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:24:34 +0000 http://whatsthematterwithkansas.com/?p=1327#comment-421 I seems Progressives is the new "L" word. Fox News uses it in combination with socialist and communist all the time. Wasn't the Progressive Movement in US history the ones that fought for everything from abolition to women's suffrage to improving the conditions of the working class. Progressivism was also imbued with strong political overtones and rejected the church as the driving force for change. Specific goals included: The desire to remove corruption and undue influence from government through the taming of bosses and political machines; the effort to include more people more directly in the political process; the conviction that government must play a role to solve social problems and establish fairness in economic matters. (From US History (http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1061.html)) We can come up this a new word, a new term to support these ideas and it will soon be labeled to radical while the Right moves further right. And the Right never lets facts or national interest get in the way of their political ambitiousness.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('421','Willy Nazario'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('421','Willy Nazario','I seems Progressives is the new \"L\" word. Fox News uses it in combination with socialist and communist all the time. Wasn\'t the Progressive Movement in US history the ones that fought for everything from abolition to women\'s suffrage to improving the conditions of the working class. \r\n\r\nProgressivism was also imbued with strong political overtones and rejected the church as the driving force for change. Specific goals included:\r\nThe desire to remove corruption and undue influence from government through the taming of bosses and political machines;\r\nthe effort to include more people more directly in the political process;\r\nthe conviction that government must play a role to solve social problems and establish fairness in economic matters. (From US History (http:\/\/www.u-s-history.com\/pages\/h1061.html))\r\n\r\nWe can come up this a new word, a new term to support these ideas and it will soon be labeled to radical while the Right moves further right. And the Right never lets facts or national interest get in the way of their political ambitiousness.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I seems Progressives is the new “L” word. Fox News uses it in combination with socialist and communist all the time. Wasn’t the Progressive Movement in US history the ones that fought for everything from abolition to women’s suffrage to improving the conditions of the working class.

Progressivism was also imbued with strong political overtones and rejected the church as the driving force for change. Specific goals included:
The desire to remove corruption and undue influence from government through the taming of bosses and political machines;
the effort to include more people more directly in the political process;
the conviction that government must play a role to solve social problems and establish fairness in economic matters. (From US History (http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1061.html))

We can come up this a new word, a new term to support these ideas and it will soon be labeled to radical while the Right moves further right. And the Right never lets facts or national interest get in the way of their political ambitiousness.

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]]> By: Joe http://whatsthematterwithkansas.com/2010/01/whats-the-matter-with-massachusetts/comment-page-1/#comment-408 Joe Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:28:49 +0000 http://whatsthematterwithkansas.com/?p=1327#comment-408 Our president is not leading as he campaigned. People heard his promises about airing the healthcare debate on C-SPAN, his new-transparency/no-lobbyist vows, and his monotonous boasts to close down Guantanamo within a year. All that is now “inoperative.” The problem was not just that Obama made promises that he broke, but that he made them so frequently and so vehemently — and so cavalierly broke them. He’s no change and a state with 11% registered Republicans went against the Democrats.

This is a wake up call DNC. The people are coming for you if you continue to let the Progressives run your party.

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]]> By: Brian D'Aoust http://whatsthematterwithkansas.com/2010/01/whats-the-matter-with-massachusetts/comment-page-1/#comment-405 Brian D'Aoust Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:38:31 +0000 http://whatsthematterwithkansas.com/?p=1327#comment-405 Right ON!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('405','Brian D\'Aoust'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('405','Brian D\'Aoust','Right ON!'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Right ON!
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