I found this great short but informative history recap of Progressivisim that I put to use on another network today while responding to a progressive poll. They do want to make it sound all rosy and cheery don't they? "Progressive" -weeeeee! What a catch word for idiots!
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It was the shiny new car and everyone wanted to take it for a spin. Progressivism had no political boundaries. Democrats like Woodrow Wilson loved it. Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt loved it. America was stuck in a rut; how better to break free than with "progress"?
The message resonated with Americans and so progressives began winning elections. And then they started governing.
In response to repeated bank runs in the early 1900s, progressives created the Federal Reserve System. This flew right in the face of Thomas Jefferson, who argued that the "Bank of the United States… is one of the most deadly hostility existing, against the principles and form of our Constitution."
It didn't take long to prove Jefferson right, as the worst financial disaster in U.S. history happened largely because of the Fed's continual contraction of the money supply before and during the Great Depression. Progressives redistributed the wealth by implementing a "progressive" income tax sold to America as something that would lower tariffs and be a tax on the wealthy. Woodrow Wilson led passage of the Revenue Act in 1913. The rates only lasted four years, then all Americans had their taxes jacked up and they haven't come down since. The bottom tax bracket hasn't paid single digit percentages in taxes in over 60 years.
They introduced the first nanny state efforts in 1919 with Prohibition. They convinced the nation to ban a drink.
Then, the final straw: The president of peace, just a few months after narrowly winning re-election, entered America into World War I. It was billed as the war to end all wars — because progressives thought they had the solution to world conflict — and brought us the League of Nations. Another failure.
Americans had had enough. Progressives had to go underground, but they've never left us.
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