Progressive.

[mmonk]

Favoring or advocating progress, improvement, or reform as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are.

[onehandle]

1. Yes she is. nt

[Kip Humphrey]

2. fantasy: something that is produced by the imagination : an idea about doing something that is

far removed from normal reality.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fantasy

[uponit7771]

6. Privileged: having special rights, advantages, or immunities ex. the "privileged" think they

...can define who is and who isn't progressive to progressives

[hootinholler]

15. I don't care who you are

That shit is funny right there.

[uponit7771]

5. Correct: free from error; in accordance with fact or truth

[whatchamacallit]

3. Incrementalism:

A failed philosophy of eschewing real progress for a "practical" one step forward, two steps back approach to maintaining the status quo (from the whatchamacallit dictionary).

[mmonk]

21. That's a good dictionary you are working with.

[uponit7771]

4. ... is not voting for the CFMA and gun corp immunity

[Doctor_J]

9. Sure

[uponit7771]

20. Or defining what progressive is to other progressives instead of accepting the degrees of ...

... progressive leanings.

That's what the privileged do

[NurseJackie]

7. A wise man once noted "you will not get what you want."

"Democracy requires compromise, even when you are 100% right. This is hard to explain sometimes. You can be completely right and you still have to engage folks who disagree with you. If you think that the only way forward is to be as uncompromising as possible, you will feel good about yourself, you will enjoy a certain moral security, but you will not get what you want." - President Barack Obama

[Broward]

8. Was/is the TPP a compromise?

[lagomorph777]

22. Hard to know, because it's a secret, but the secrecy would indicate

it's probably not a compromise; it's probably 100% global corporatist takeover of our country (and many others).

[mmonk]

26. Then the Three-Fifths Compromise was sufficient.

[mmonk]

10. .

[jwirr]

17. THIS

[mmonk]

11. Justice.

Justice is the legal or philosophical theory by which fairness is administered.

[hellofromreddit]

12. Neo-progressivism -- Progressivism for rich donors.

[mmonk]

13. .

[jwirr]

18. ^^^THIS^^^

[mmonk]

14. I'll check back soon to look at people's replies and perspectives on the elections.

[Orsino]

16. That's vague, but on the money.

Being too tight with Wall Street, the author of so many of our ills, would tend to disqualify a candidate.

[mmonk]

19. It was basically a dictionary description I gave.

Today I think, some think change not progress. Or progress in negative terms as a business interest. Others use it as an indentification, even if it doesn't fit.

[Hortensis]

23. More, Mmonk. Progressivism is believing we should ACT

to make progress, improvement, reform happen.

Progressive churches don't wait for the next world; they work on this one.

Progressive governments tackle problems too large for private enterprise or individuals to fix.

Progressivism is HUGE; it is found at all levels of society and was at one time very much alive to varying degrees in almost all its political ideologies. That's why the very wealthy anti-regulation and anti-tax advocates have invested billions over 30 years trying to convince Americans that "big" government is bad. "Big" oppressive government is how its enemies redefined "progressive" government in order to bring it down.

[mmonk]

24. Yes

[Hortensis]

25. Lol. I'm a fast keyboarder, can't resist

running awhile myself when I believe in something. Good post!