Reply #363: The one Theodore Roosevelt ran in

[Chulanowa]

Of course, that's primarily if you compare that progressive Party to the socialist party of the era. The idea of TR's progressive party was to be a bunch of corporate-friendly centrists that still had a bit of room for the working man... So, not a lit different from the current democratic party. Not exactly anti-labor, but didn't really have labor's best interests at heart.

And then you have the soviet definition of "progressive" where it simply meant "whatever the government wants" - and non-progressives, including anyone who tried to organize outside of strict state control, got to mine salt in Siberia.

Current progressives seem to harbor some pretty deep anti-labor antipathy at times as well. You know, because we're scum that can't afford organic foods, don't have the time for mind-opening tai chi, and the like. More of a class divide than anything, but it's noticable.