Editorial: Why Are Democrats Fighting Each Other Over Abortion?

[GulfCoast66]

20. I say this with all respect...

But please read the long history of the term Progressive and the progressive movement as a whole. It is why I do not use it to define my believes. I prefer liberal.

Progressivism was originally all about the economy and making the playing field more level for the little guy. Supporting strong Unions, strong government regulation of business, especially big business and insuring that the most needy are not forgotten. All worthy goals.

However, over the last 125 years progressives have been very quick to abandon social causes, if they ever espoused them in the first place.

That has created tension in the left of American politics for over 70 years and is at the heart of LBJ's statement that by signing the Civil Rights Act he was losing the south for generations. He well knew that had he not done so the South and Wallace Democrats would have supported the great society. It would have only helped whites.

Now I realize that many people who describe themselves as progressives in 2017 are fully on board with civil and social rights. But the last year and the migration of many DU members to other sites that do not value civil and social rights as much as we liberals proved to me that there is still a 'economy only' contingent of the progressive movement alive and well today.

And it is my opinion that many of them have made there way back here in the last 3-4 weeks.