How many Liberals and "Progressives" actually know the history of their movement?

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And I don't mean coming out of the Progressive Era, I mean what influenced it, who started it, etc.
Todays Liberals are not the same as the Classical Liberals that our Founders were.
OK so the answer is ZERO. Dang, I could've saved myself 5 points.
 
American Liberalism started with Jefferson. Conservatives have been trying to link American Liberalisem with Russian liberalism if you want to call it that for years.
 
before the progressive movement came about interracial marriage was illegal in the south.

I've lived in the south and have brothers and sisters there in interracial marriages. They're all very happy too. Without the progressive movement them marrying would still be considered "illegal"
 
History is the past.

The future holds: Anti-business tactics that will push out business and destroy the United States with INFINITLY high debt.

The only way to pay for Universal Healthcare is for....advanced business concepts to come out. We've been ITCHING to use them since Bush.

Universal healthcare will create one big needy....weak...expensive...broke society...or anarchy.

Enjoy your food while it last...
 
NONE! Libs and Progressives base their positions on "FEELINGS. Oh oh oh oh. FEELINGS! Feelings of tingles rolling down their legs when BO appears......Those feelings for Boooooooo!!!!!". ((((((thank you!! thank you!!!! I'll be in Vegas next Thursday)))))
 
yes in England by those who could see a better way
which is why they battled the conservatives , to stop child labor and battled the conservatives to let children have free education. we fought against the conservatives for women to have the vote (Thomas Jefferson would be appalled) and for Afro Americans to be regarded as human

every good thing for people in society is a product of liberalism

thomas jefferson was not a liberal

Jefferson's first promotions of Indian Removal were between 1776 and 1779, when he recommended forcing the Cherokee and Shawnee tribes to be driven out of their ancestral homelands to lands west of the Mississippi River
Or more succinctly, as Jefferson wrote in a letter to his Secretary of War, General Henry Dearborn (who was the primary government official responsible for managing Indian Affairs during Jefferson's presidency): "if we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down until that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississipi."

"Jefferson, like all slaveholders and many other white members of American society, regarded Negroes as inferior, childlike, untrustworthy and, of course, as property. Jefferson, the genius of politics, could see no way for African Americans to live in society as free people."

Jefferson detested intellectual women. Annoyed by the political chatter of women in Parisian salons, he wrote home expressing the hope that 'our good ladies ... are contented to soothe and calm the minds of their husbands returning ruffled from political debate.'" While President, Jefferson wrote that "The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor am I."
 
In the Beginning there was the Reagan. And He looked out upon the poor and He spoketh at length about The Trickling Down. But the poor looketh up and saw nothing.

And then the Reagan spoke to a great king called Saddam. And He blessed Saddam with many weapons that caused burning and illness upon his enemies.

But the Reagan in His wisdom wanted more. So he bade a warrior named Ollie to go forth and do bad things in secret and to stick papers into the boots of his secretary.

And when the people became angry at these shenanigans, the Reagan appeared before their tribunals and said He could not remember.

And then the Reagan ate of the Jelly Belly. And it was good.
 
I know plenty of different sources. The "liberal movement" didn't start in one place. It's not like it was started by John McLiberal in room # A322 on the Harvard main campus on January 26, 1899.
 
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