02-11-2010, 01:22 PM
Quote:Oh, you want W's progressive sins. :) I would count "No Child Left Behind", "War on Iraq", and "Prescription Drug Program" the most egregious, with many countless minor ones.This is insane. Claiming the war in Iraq was progressive policy is downright Orwellian. War is Peace! Slavery is freedom! Bush is Progressive!
Prohibition was a progressive movement... back in the 1920s. It's not exactly popular with progressives today, most of whom embrace civil liberties to a much larger extent than 'progressives' from a century ago. Anti-tobacco education and propaganda still is popular, but this is not a "sin" shared by Nixon, nor either Bush.
Being able to accurately tell black from white, rather than squint it all into a blurry shade of anti-libertarian grey, is not myopia. It's common sense.
-Jester