Good God, Gene you are so fixated on the "progressives vs You" (it was "liberals" last year till the media started spouting "progressives") that you won't even allow another idea for contemplation into your head. Politics is merely a diversion placed before us to distract us from what's really happening in the world.
Try this one, OK? You got a cell phone I'm sure. Now what does this have to do with "Progressives" destroying the world? You wanna give up the convienience of your first world instant communication to blab about pointless bullshit while in a store or driving down the street? No? Well I guess to you, even though they are trying to survive in their homeland under conditions we cannot even grasp, these people would have no more rights or reason to live than "illegals" (or more correctly: not you & your prefered associates) & thus be of no importance because they ain't wite midel klas Amurikans, even though they work endless hours in surealistically bad conditions to try to earn a living and support their families. The families they love every bit as much as you do yours.
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When are you going to start to get it, Gene? the "progressives vs. conservatives" line is just an implemented diversion to keep you from realizing the real issue---The mega-corporate elite of the world who are laughing at us worms & our "concerns". We who call ourselves citizens, 'people'-- but to them are no more than fodder to their profit making machines and of no use to them except as laborers & consumers who enrich them on both sides of the deal.
Direct your anger where it should go, Gene, rather than where they tell you to. And back it up with action or else STFU.