What Progressives Believe
Posted on February 12th, 2007 by ecthompson
Republicans are able to distill their ideas down into a couple of key words or phrases. Democrats seem to get tongue-tied in a cacophony of noises that seems to resemble an epileptic seizure when we are asked the same thing. Here is a list of five basic principles which I think cover most of the Democratic, liberal, progressive thinking Americans believe in. I hope this catches on.
Stronger America
Prosperity for All
Better Future
Effective Government
Mutual Responsibility
I decided to re-post this because I believe that these concepts are important.
Aren’t these somewhat clichéd. Any serious political movement at least openly pushing for a weaker America or worse future or ineffective government? I don’t see where these statements provide a clear policy, compared to the Republican position of low taxes. The implication of that slogan (low taxes) - lower capital gains, lower rates etc were fairly obvious.
Dude, you are cracking me up. What is politics? It is ability to convince people that you have the best vision for America. The R’s have 10 word vision also. They have had the same 10 words for several decades. These 10 words are about vision and beliefs not policy.
I think your comparison is correct. Compare lower taxes to prosperity for all. Compare small government to effective government.
All ‘n all. I’ll take the ten words. If you have a better vision serve it up!
Speaing of politics…Al Franken said that he is running for Senate. Hope this works out better than his radio career.