Democrats and progressives believe in high quality government. Perhaps there is a better set of words than those threes, but that captures the idea exactly that we have to face.
You have a love-hate relationship with government... am I wrong? You don't trust them... and yet you don't trust business... perhaps you settled long ago with this nature and realize that the government is nearly the only tool you have going for you as a progressive trying to secure social equity.
Still... you are not the type to willingly be "governed"...
In fact, what we want is Social Infrastructure, so the term "govern"ment is just a historical accident.
Well you need to sort this all out so we can take our rightful place as the political philosophy of high quality government, which means high quality social infrastructure.