Reply #151: The purpose of the progressive

[Jose Diablo]

in the political discourse is to move the median view of America toward a less authoritarian and more communitarian view.

The Bush* neocon radical authoritarian view has moved America into a police state. A harsh, less free, less stable, economically bankrupt state.

The progressive view on ecology, womens rights, gay rights, more community versus individualism, gun regulation are views more in tune with what is needed in the modern world than the current world view of the Bush* administration.

The radically authoritarian world view will be the death of us all. The world has 6 billion people, the world will not support a human species with a world view that was used when the world had a population of 10 million.

The place of DU is to provide a soap box so the progressive view specifically and the overall democratic principles the America was founded on can be presented in such a way to convince the body politic to abandon a world view that will kill the world and the human race. Abandon a world view that was more suited to an environment far in the past.