Progressives (Liberals)

They are all corrupt.

Both parties' power is facilitated and enhanced by corrupt practices from D.C. to Main Street. But that doesn't mean that every politician (in either party) is on the take. When grown ass people indicate that they prefer Democrats that's not an endorsement of corruption, it's that Democrats tend to favor policies which recognize that ordinary people are better served by a government which tries to reign in corporate power through regulation, extend suffrage as broadly as possible, and protect the civil rights of the least powerful.
If the poster had said Dems are preferred, I wouldn't have said anything; however, he described them as:

Quote:

" liberals, who have always been the keepers of the true American values."

and that statement drew my comment.
Half of Dems can't pass muster even qualifying as liberals. If they have been the keepers of American values, it is an indictment of those values.

hightor wrote:

Both parties' power is facilitated and enhanced by corrupt practices from D.C. to Main Street. But that doesn't mean that every politician (in either party) is on the take. When grown ass people indicate that they prefer Democrats that's not an endorsement of corruption, it's that Democrats tend to favor policies which recognize that ordinary people are better served by a government which tries to reign in corporate power through regulation, extend suffrage as broadly as possible, and protect the civil rights of the least powerful.

Lash wrote:

If the poster had said Dems are preferred, I wouldn't have said anything; however, he described them as:

Monterey Jack wrote:

" liberals, who have always been the keepers of the true American
values."

Lash wrote:

and that statement drew my comment.
Half of Dems can't pass muster even qualifying as liberals. If they have been the keepers of American values, it is an indictment of those values.

This post was poorly parsed. My apologies to Hightor.

I've improved it.

I see you as a bit of an absolutist on the virtues of the Rs....

PleAZE DO. not compRe me to a rigid ideollogue who gullibly repeats evdrything he reads

Not hardly. That you think it is reflects poorly on you.

Anything you pst which has similar claims to Obama was trying to weaken America is utter nonsense.