Stop using "progressive" like it means what they say it does. It means the opposite. "Progressive" is Orwellian for regressive. Progressive policies cause regressive results. With the exceptions of retirement and racial civil rights, every single "progressive" policy since World War II has backfired and fostered MORE poverty and a shrinking middle class: - GI Bill brought suburban sprawl and white flight from inner cities, leaving them to drugs, violence, joblessness, welfare dependency (= net loss); - Labor union benefits were co-opted by the gov't, making unions obsolete and benefiting everybody (even the unemployed) = net loss; - Interstate highways enabled exur...