Apart from #s 1 & 3 I’m with you - the last time I was a progressive, though back then, 1977 it was called a “liberal”. And I’m a proud American Latino, by heritage an inheritor of a 500 year old tradition and by love, admiration and respect an American patriot. With your permission I’ll copy and use your descriptors in my engagements with others without the clarity of their own positions.
Conservatives expect too much of the individual, because they refuse to acknowledge how their own reality is socially constructed, especially their successes in life. In times of rapid social change, the individual gets lost and confused and needs more protection not less.
"Higher ground" is here in Mexico (although our house is only about 30 feet above sea level). It's a very libertarian space, which welcomes educated folk. (See the book South to Freedom.) MeridaGOround dot com
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Apart from #s 1 & 3 I’m with you - the last time I was a progressive, though back then, 1977 it was called a “liberal”. And I’m a proud American Latino, by heritage an inheritor of a 500 year old tradition and by love, admiration and respect an American patriot. With your permission I’ll copy and use your descriptors in my engagements with others without the clarity of their own positions.
Conservatives expect too much of the individual, because they refuse to acknowledge how their own reality is socially constructed, especially their successes in life. In times of rapid social change, the individual gets lost and confused and needs more protection not less.
"Higher ground" is here in Mexico (although our house is only about 30 feet above sea level). It's a very libertarian space, which welcomes educated folk. (See the book South to Freedom.) MeridaGOround dot com