The Progressive Revolution Is Being Led by a Black Woman

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147. No, we did NOT, but which would be the greater insult?

To assume you believe that, or not? In case you really do,

Liberals/Democrats didn't just create but have protected and advanced against constant conservative attacks ALL progressive legislation for as long as progressive government has existed: with Perkins unemployment insurance, Social Security, minimum wage, child labor laws, and dozens of other labor and union protections, as well as EVERY progressive advance that has come after.

In every era from our Revolution to today, the dissident left has been a destructive nuisance that has had to be overcome in order to advance. Those who refused to ally and obstructed what wasn't always good enough for them in every era, like their attempts to repeal (and someday replace) the ACA in this one, have no more claim to America's progressive programs than today's Republicans have to Abraham Lincoln.

And when we've failed to advance, it was entirely because suckered voters believed subversive messages from the dissident left as well as the right, and now Russia, and failed themselves and their nation.

As for Sanders, he's now an elderly man after decades in government, and his one big accomplishment that will live on is what happened on and came after November 8, 2016. That is what he will go down in history for. His purpose for Republicans, conservative billionaires, and Putin, and wittingly or unwittingly for those who have supported him after our convention, was and is as a weapon to aim at Democrats.

And such a pathetic cliche of a weapon, Uncle. Minor dissidents seeking power ALWAYS claim the people in power are corrupt sellouts, just as predictably as mouthwash commercials claim to make mouths fresher. That's every bit as big a red flag that should have been keenly examined as Trump's authoritarian bragging of "I alone can fix it."

No need to examine these cliches' records for competence achievement and clues to future performance, though, if it's really first and foremost about dissidence and opposition to the Democratic Party, not progress.

And back to Stacy Abrams. Stacy is a proven, competent Democrat, by her record. I'm glad she's trying to draw from across the spectrum, but the likelihood that she can be a successful governor, even though she will be working with Georgia's large Republican majority in the legislature, was why I voted for her. She's no dissident destroyer.