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...Early 20th-century progressives transformed American institutions, and the movement’s premises continue to inform thinking and policy across the political spectrum. “It was the progressives who fashioned the new sciences of society, founded the modern American university, invented the think tank, and created the American administrative state, institutions still defined by the progressive values that formed and instructed them,” writes Leonard, a research scholar at Princeton’s Council of the Humanities.

The progressives believed, first and foremost, in the importance of science and scientific experts in guiding the economy, government, and society. Against the selfishness, disorder, corruption, ignorance, conflict and wastefulness of free markets or mass democracy, they advanced the ideal of disinterested, public-spirited social control by well-educated elites. The progressives were technocrats who, Leonard observes, “agreed that expert public administrators do not merely serve the common good, they also identify the common good.” Schools of public administration, including the one that since 1948 has borne Woodrow Wilson’s name, still enshrine that conviction.

...“The ‘race suicide’ of the American or colonial stock should be regarded as the most fundamental of our social problems,” the Wisconsin economist John R. Commons wrote in 1920. His colleague Edward A. Ross, who popularized the terms “social control” and “race suicide,” called interest in eugenics “a perfect index of one’s breadth of outlook and unselfish concern for the future of our race.”

In the early 20th century, most progressives viewed as cutting-edge science what today looks like simple bigotry. “Eugenics and race science were not pseudosciences in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era,” Leonard emphasizes. “They were sciences,” supported by research laboratories and scholarly journals and promoted by professors at the country’s most prestigious universities.


Progressives Must Confront Their Racist Roots
Early progressives viewed as cutting-edge science what today looks like simple bigotry.
https://fee.org/articles/progressives-must-confront-their-racist-roots/
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Huh. Maybe progressives will start addressing their racist roots right after they get ex-Harvey Weinstein beau and sexual assaulting-enabler President Oprah elected?

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The "confront" it by rewriting actual history. They claim that racists magically fled the Democrat party to join the Civil rights advancing Republicans in disgust of racist Johnson reluctantly signing legislation under threat of a veto over-ride coalition...despite the fact that voting records do not reflect that nor does the continued success of Democratic candidates in the South thereafter.

They pandered to blacks in big, blue cities using patronage jobs and go ernment handouts as bribes to vote Democrat. Once they had sufficient numbers of black Democrat voters they simply declared that they were the anti-racist party.

When Republicans tried to champion welfare reform (eventually signed into law by a very reluctant Bill Clinton under threat of a veto override) because of the deleterious effects it was having on communities as well as the unsustainable expense Democrat successfully painted them as anti-black because primarily blacks are on welfare. (According to Democrats at the time.)

It's hard for me to know where the Democrats truly are as ignorant of political history as they appear to be or when they are simply disingenuous liars.
 
Que said:
The "confront" it by rewriting actual history. They claim that racists magically fled the Democrat party to join the Civil rights advancing Republicans in disgust of racist Johnson reluctantly signing legislation under threat of a veto over-ride coalition...despite the fact that voting records do not reflect that nor does the continued success of Democratic candidates in the South thereafter.

They pandered to blacks in big, blue cities using patronage jobs and go ernment handouts as bribes to vote Democrat. Once they had sufficient numbers of black Democrat voters they simply declared that they were the anti-racist party.

When Republicans tried to champion welfare reform (eventually signed into law by a very reluctant Bill Clinton under threat of a veto override) because of the deleterious effects it was having on communities as well as the unsustainable expense Democrat successfully painted them as anti-black because primarily blacks are on welfare. (According to Democrats at the time.)

It's hard for me to know where the Democrats truly are as ignorant of political history as they appear to be or when they are simply disingenuous liars.
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Oh, the irony!
 
Let us deflect from the active, virulent racism of the current POTUS.

Come on, deflect some more. "But whatabout oid Dums...??"

Dums ain't the racist pigs running the gov't.

Gups are racist shitheads. Now.

Suck it up.
 
If Oprah managed to buy Obama the presidency, shouldn't she be able to buy herself the presidency?
 
Does any modern American identify themselves as a 'progressive'?

The UK's Conservative Party recently announced a 'progressive' programme of legislation. Could the US Republicans do that?

Does any modern American identify themselves as a 'socialist'?

Many European political parties are happy to have that label.

What 'progressive' and 'socialist' mean in US political discussions are just terms of abuse used by one partisan group against another. They don't mean the same the other side of the Atlantic.
 
oggbashan said:
Does any modern American identify themselves as a 'progressive'?

The UK's Conservative Party recently announced a 'progressive' programme of legislation. Could the US Republicans do that?

Does any modern American identify themselves as a 'socialist'?

Many European political parties are happy to have that label.

What 'progressive' and 'socialist' mean in US political discussions are just terms of abuse used by one partisan group against another. They don't mean the same the other side of the Atlantic.
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Many are outright communists trying to sound acceptable.
 
Rightguide said:
Many are outright communists trying to sound acceptable.
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Communist doesn't mean the same in Europe. We didn't have a Senator McCarthy.

In the UK communists are rare. They are probably outnumbered by supporters of the Raving Loony Party. But in France and Italy they are significant political forces.
 
oggbashan said:
Communist doesn't mean the same in Europe. We didn't have a Senator McCarthy.

In the UK communists are rare. They are probably outnumbered by supporters of the Raving Loony Party. But in France and Italy they are significant political forces.
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This is why we leave letters out of English words.
You people make everything too complicated.
 
oggbashan said:
Does any modern American identify themselves as a 'progressive'?

The UK's Conservative Party recently announced a 'progressive' programme of legislation. Could the US Republicans do that?

Does any modern American identify themselves as a 'socialist'?

Many European political parties are happy to have that label.

What 'progressive' and 'socialist' mean in US political discussions are just terms of abuse used by one partisan group against another. They don't mean the same the other side of the Atlantic.
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Bernie Sanders self-identifies as a Socialist. His version just involves giving away free stuff with no idea as how that's going to be paid for, or by whom. Kind of like modern Republicans. The only difference being who benefits from the largesse.
 
oggbashan said:
Communist doesn't mean the same in Europe. We didn't have a Senator McCarthy.

In the UK communists are rare. They are probably outnumbered by supporters of the Raving Loony Party. But in France and Italy they are significant political forces.
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they are not rare here just re branded for social acceptability.
 
Let us be clear.
Gups are currently the party of racism, sexism, and theft.
Go ahead, deflect all you want.
Doesn't change things.
Gups are evil.
 
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