Progressives (Liberals)

No, I think the WP is. Comprehension problems?

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-sanders-money-20190402-story.html

Excerpt:

Bernie Sanders put to rest any suggestion that the movement behind him has faded since his first run for president as his campaign team announced Tuesday that he had raised an immense amount of cash from a huge number of donors.
Sanders’ campaign collected $18.2 million from 525,000 donors — most of them under age 39 — in the first quarter of 2019, campaign officials said. The intimidating show of financial force will probably position Sanders to compete aggressively in every key state, giving him more resources than most of his Democratic rivals. Eighty percent of the donors had given to a previous Sanders campaign, reflecting his durability as a candidate.

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For Sanders, whose average contribution in the first fundraising quarter was just $20, the largest number of donors came from California. Some 97,000 Californians gave to him, reflecting his strength even in a state with its own strong candidate, Harris, on the ballot.

But the number from the Sanders team that is most likely to intimidate rivals is the total amount of cash it has in the bank — $28million, which includes money raised before he launched his current presidential run.
The cash should position Sanders to launch a full-service campaign operation in every state with a contest on or before Super Tuesday on March 3, including some, like California, that other candidates won’t be able to afford to pursue aggressively.
“These resources are going to allow us to compete on all levels in all of the Super Tuesday states,” said Jeff Weaver, a lead Sanders advisor. “A number of [other] campaigns are going to have to make difficult choices.”

😀 sent my $27.

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An incredible 525,000 people have already contributed to our campaign.

The most common profession? Teachers. The average donation? Just $20.

This campaign is about all of us—not billionaire donors and Super PACs

Yep. Bernie seems to be doing fine. Good for him.

A fine example of attempts to foment dissent on the left.

So far, the far left on Able2Know seem to be the ones pushing the Biden 'thing'.

Good for the nation too.

Somebody on A2K is "far left"? That's news to me.

I thought you didn't like the term "progressives."

I swear, there is no pleasing you.

I haven't seen that. Who?

But I admit I posted that piece as a reminder to some that if they are pushing the same line that Trump is pushing, then they ought to be known for exactly that.

It's happening on the Biden thread mostly (from what I've seen). Here's the most recent, but if you go back several pages you'll see it's the progressives/far-left who are pushing the Biden stories.

https://able2know.org/topic/287301-36#post-6819564

Thanks. Hadn't seen that thread.

There's a very evident nexus between right wing dirty tricks activists and Sanders supporters. But we'd be utterly foolish to imagine that would not be the case. It's difficult to discern from where some Sanders supporters are getting fed information/misinformation but that is where the trolling is being done.

Don't try and please, just try and make sense.

My post made perfect sense. You just like to find anywhere you can disagree with me (it seems).

The UK's Conservative MP Nick Boles resigned from his party's whip on the floor of the House of Commons, seconds after MPs rejected alternatives to Theresa May's EU withdrawal deal two days ago.

He tweeted that he would sit as an "Independent Progressive Conservative":

What does that label mean in the UK?

The Republicans don't care about Metoo, but the Democrats do.

You just answered on the wrong thread, that's all.

Like in other countries (e.g. Germany) it means promoting or favouring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas or methods.
So we've got here progressive Social-Democrats, a few in the conservative CDU, very few in liberal-right FDP. (Although members of the Weimar-period progressive party [DDP - "German Democratic Party"] joined mainly the FDP, a few the CDU after WWII.)

In the UK, David Cameron was arguing for "progressive conservatism". It appeared to mean something modern and fair, with a green tinge and different from his Conservative predecessors.
Greg Clark and Jeremy Hunt (two of his ministers), had pushed to re-cast Conservatism in that light: "The party has regularly been Britain's progressive party," they wrote in 2007, "in reform, by confronting vested interests and championing the disempowered, oriented towards the future rather than to yearning for the past."

When Labour failed to win a majority at the 2010 election, Gordon Brown sought to form a "progressive alliance" with Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats.
"Progressive alliance" is a bit different, see this wikipedia article

In Ontario, they still call the Tories the PC, the Progressive Conservatives. When Tommy Douglas established a decidedly left-wing government (CCF) in Saskatchewan, and then successfully brought in Medicare, or socialized medicine, the Tories were scrambling. They renamed themselves progressive conservatives, and although Tories now call themselves united conservatives, they still call themselves the PC in Ontario.