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A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
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Theodore Roosevelt |
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Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because society cannot stop evolving (and social evolution inevitably dovetails with the agenda of those who see change as an abstract positive). It might take seventy years, but it always happens eventually. Serious historians are, almost without exception, self-styled progressives. Radical views--even the awful ones--improve with age.
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progressives
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society
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Chuck Klosterman |
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You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.
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politics
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progressive
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George Lakoff |
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"[Free trade agreements] are trade agreements that don't
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socialism
politics
brilliant
bush
corporatocracy
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dictator
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communism
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Ralph Nader |
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The reactionary point of view was always so easy to put, the complex, radical argument always so easy to put down.
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reactionary
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Ben Elton |
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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness... &
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politics
liberal
libertarian
progressive
conservative
selfishness
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