The best for everybody. Progressive measures that the real and vocal majority of Americans want on every issue. Even gun safety and women’s medical choices.
Progressives are not “far to the Left”. Gerrymanders and voter suppression and fear-mongering have pretended to move the country far to the right for the last half-century. But Bush 41 lost to Clinton, and neither W nor Trump was legitimately elected.
Yes, we want the best for everybody, no matter which side they think they are on. The only counter-arguments are political possibility (but what if we win comprehensively in 2020?) and bogus complaints about affordability when our options would save real money. And the Second Amendment, which does not say what they pretend to think it says.
- We want the best voting rights for all. Yes, Much McTurtled, it’s a Democratic power grab. We are going to grab back all of the power that was stolen from us under Jim Crow and gerrymandering and voter suppression for all those years. And from Native Americans, and women, and those who didn’t own property and those who were regarded as property before that. (See Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power)
- We want the best education for all. Including science, which is a deal-breaker for some. (see Answers in Genesis) Also art and music and real history and civics. Ask any teacher not approved by Betsy DeVos.
- We want the best jobs for all, with a share in productivity growth, and benefits, and all. Including everybody who is out to “steal” jobs from entitled White folks, particularly the jobs that White folks won’t do. (Yes, we offered very explicitly, and no, they were equally explicitly not having any.)
- We want the best health care and public health systems for all. Including gunshot victims, anti-vaxxers, and nativists who want undocumented immigrants to be a health risk to all the rest of us. (Even the AMA has come around.)
- We want the best taxes for all, so that everybody gets value for their money, but nobody gets to rip off all the rest of us. The horror! The horror! (See Joseph Conrad, The Heart of Darkness, and Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations)
- We want the best Liberty for all. That includes Freedom From Religion. (Thanks, Ron Reagan. Check out his ad.) Deal with it, snowflakes. It isn’t just atheists who want out from under your Christianism.
- We want the best Justice for all. No more war on drugs. No more slavery by another name. No more felon disenfranchisement. No more police murders with impunity. No more ripping children of asylum seekers from their mothers’ arms, and pretending that it would traumatize the children to give them back.
It isn’t the fault of Progressives that extremists won’t have any of that because those [insert pejorative here] would get some.
It isn’t the fault of Progressives that millions of children of the Deplorables fall away every year, and their elders are in a blind, raging panic about it.
I have chapter and verse on every one of these points, if needed. But none of it is in any way secret from the DK audience, no matter how much the other side denies it all.
Sir Hercules Grytpype-Thynne, plausible public-school villain and cad: Be quiet, you fool, or I’ll tell them who sold those three cardboard tanks.
Major Denis Bloodnok, Military Idiot, Coward, and Bar: It’s all lies! In any case, they never paid me!
The Goon Show, script by Spike Milligan, BBC Radio in the 1950s
All of that is without counting the evils we could give up and the good we could do around the world.
Cease from evil.
Do only good.
Do good for others.
The Three Pure Precepts in Buddhism.
Oh, look, I’ve gone and written another Diary in a comment. Well, here you are, with improvements.