Why am I progressive? Probably growing up on Long Island around all different types of cultures, races, religions and not living in a bubble surrounded by all like minded people blowing smoke up each other's asses and reinforcing biases and a worldview that flies in the face of facts.
Also, I'm well educated.
And most importantly, I have empathy and I'm not a selfish asshole that just wants for myself and nobody else. I can put myself in other people's shoes and get a feel for what they are facing, their hardships, etc. I don't think the entire world revolves around me like it seems many conservatives do. And another things, facts are on my side. The world evolves, progresses. Any successful business succeeds by evolving to the changing times. Those that remain the same end up being overtaken by the new company that innovated. Facts also support my position on most topics
And I don't watch news on TV and political mouth pieces or opinions shows
First; I'd like to thank you for your participation and for your compassion for humanity, which I happen to share(contrary to popular belief).
As a Manhattanite, I also share your exposure to the diversity in what many believe to be the worlds greatest microcosm of the human race.
But I disagree to your divide between caring-concerned-compassionate people and greedy-selfish-uncaring people being of a ideo-political nature.
Too often Progressives over-rely on emotions to solve a problem, which leads them to confuse an
opposing solution with a
lack of compassion.
And your reference to progressive business practices as if it was somehow akin to the progressive ideology leads me to suspect you have had very little exposure to actual conservatives/capitalists.
Its a tie between the constitution and progressivisms superiority
The US system that brought about the freeist, safest, wealthiest, most powerful nation on Earth and gave to the world the "American Dream" would never have been possible with standard far-left policies.
Instead; the United States would have been something more comparable to the USSR or Red China or possibly even worse.
I became a Democrat because of Reagan’s tax increases on the middle class. It wasn’t the increase. It was the incessant lying that he cut them. Iran contra also disgusted me. Unlike every conservative I couldn’t overlook the hypocrisy of dealing with the Iranians.
Finding out later that Nicaragua actually had a free election meaning we were funding terrorists also made me sick. I don’t even have to discuss his treasonous deal with Iranians in 1980 or covering for saddam’s genocide.
The Reagan-Presidency was just a tad pre-me
but from what I've seen he was very successful.
(won the Cold War without nuking the world)
And from old videos, speeches, and his personal history; he struck me as a very good man and a sincerely caring human being.
(unlike all those phony career politicians)
And although I don't usually support the US sticking its nose in the business of others; I do realize that Americans are often left out of the information loop regarding foreign policy.
That's why it's important to have a moral, honest, compassionate leader at the helm who will always put the US and its Citizens first, which I suspect Reagan was; although I do believe his amnesty blunder was a mistake, as he himself found out later.
In other words you have a brain that reasons and functions independently. That is the most important trait that distinguishes progressives.
No group has a monopoly in the
smarts department but there is no doubt an abundance of well educated and even intelligent progressives out there in the world.
But from everything I've seen
"having a brain that reasons and functions independently" is far from being a
"progressive trait"; the key word being
'independently'...If I may clarify.
Most appear to be faithful followers who rarely question their ideopolitical/MSM leaders that regularly adjust their views according to who, what, when, or where it applies.
Why are you asking questions that you clearly have no honest interest in people answering?
You couldn't be more wrong!