Quote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but "Progressives" typically are for redistribution of wealth.  This in theory would be achieved by high taxes on the wealthy with little to no taxation on the lower classes.  It would also institute a policy of a higher minimum wage thereby forcing business owners to pay more in salary than the job that they provide is worth.  In other words, the Federal Government would seize property from certain people, then redistribute said property to others.

 

They are also for "free" medical care and "free" education.

 

They also believe in the collective rather than the individual.

 

If I wasn't so lazy at the moment, I would put links to examples of all of this ranging from quotes from politicians that are the darlings of "Progressives" to images at leftist protests.

 

These concepts have been tried in the past and have failed.  For the most recent example take a look at North Korea.

Other than you obvious dislike for leftists policies and a need to tell me you dislike them, I do not see what that has to do with the discussion he and I were having which was his accusations that I made up the idea that progressives desire the removal of money from politics. 

 

North Korea is a not a republic but you somehow equate them to the progressive movement in America? Would that be similar to a claim that religious right wingers want a religious state as we see in middle east so we should ignore everything they say?

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