Why isn't there a Progressive Party? Or is there? [View all]
Sorry, I'm new here so take it easy on me!
But why isn't there a national Progressive Party? Or is there one? Looks to me that the Progressive movement is more localized and is sort of the sidekick platform of the Democrats? I'm fairly new to politics and I find my self agreeing more with what I'd consider Progressive principles.
Like for example I'm, I guess I was looking forward to Hillary running. Then I saw all the debating on here back and forth and people pointing out how she backs GMO's, how much money she has, how much she charges for speeches, how connected to Wall St. she is. So I started looking things up on the internet and realized she's not what I want to vote for at all. I think I rather vote for someone like Elizabeth Warren. I didn't even know who she was until I came here!
So joining here really opened my eyes to how complex politics really is. But it also showed me that there seems to be two different sides to the Democratic Party... a middle to left leaning group and a left to far left group and really from my short time here, neither group seems to mesh except for the fact that collectively we want to trounce the Republicants... so that got me thinking as to why there isn't national Progressive Party... or is there one?
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