Here's a list of Progressives doing their thing in the world of "New Media":
PART 1
PART 2
Today, thanks to the GOP, compromise has gone out the window in Washington. In the first two years of the Obama administration, nearly every presidential initiative met with vehement, rancorous and unanimous Republican opposition in the House and the Senate, followed by efforts to delegitimize the results and repeal the policies. The filibuster, once relegated to a handful of major national issues in a given Congress, became a routine weapon of obstruction, applied even to widely supported bills or presidential nominations. And Republicans in the Senate have abused the confirmation process to block any and every nominee to posts such as the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, solely to keep laws that were legitimately enacted from being implemented.Then scan through some of the (>5000) comments - which (by my quick and totally unsubstantiated estimation) appear to be running 10-1 in support of the basic premise that the GOP is the problem. Tho' I think a more accurate characterization would be that the extremists in the GOP who are masquerading as conservatives are the problem.
Using the 1972 Democratic Party platform as a baseline, note what happened to the Left over the last 40 years. And ask yourself, honestly, in that time, have the Left's policies and expectations tacked consistently towards the 1972/GOP Right...or has the Left seized America's guns?
Have we outlawed religion?
Has the Democratic Party moved to make abortion 100% legal and government funded through the ninth month of pregnancy, no questions asked?
Is pot cheap, legal and available over-the-counter at every CVS and Piggly Wiggly?
Have we sold off our last battleship?
Are our schools impossibly well-funded?
Does every citizen have free, lifetime health care?
Does every building sport solar panels?
Is gay marriage legal everywhere?
Have we nationalized our banks and oil companies?
Do we tax the rich at 98%?
Is there an 18 month paid parental leave by law? And three months of mandatory paid vacation?
Is there a $22/hr minimum wage?
Is union membership now mandatory?
Are fully half of the Democratic members Congress stocked open and committed Socialists?
Are a quarter of the Democratic members Congress stocked open and committed Communists?
No.
None of these things have happened.
And yet unless all of these things and more were true, there is simply no comparison between the slow, depressing rightward slog of the Left over the last 40 years...
...and the rage-fueled, anti-science, anti-environment, anti-woman, anti-freedom, anti-Middle Class bullet train to Crazytown that the Right has been on during this same period: