re: The time has come to decriminalize marijuana in this country.

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None of this makes those you listed Progressives

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yes. it makes all of them progressives, including almost every republican you've ever seen.

it doesn't mean some broad idea of someone on the "left"


and it doesn't really matter what label they take for themselves.

the term progressive didn't come back until people were tired of being yelled at for being "liberal" so they supplanted progressive because it sounds nicer, and they could cherry pick some history they liked.

but it isnt a stand-in for liberal. it's a direct link back to the teddy Roosevelt/woodrow wilson age when the evangelicals took over the country, and used their religious logic in their politics. the idea of social justice was a religious one first that didn't mean what it means today.

but the church and the politicians threw in together, and now we have a giant religion we all worship called the State.

tithe- taxes
prayer- pledge
cross- flag
state supported scientists and politicians- clergy

freedom- heresy


they won. hard. you cant even see the world except through a lens of progressivism. total victory.