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Progressive candidates make progress on defining progressivism

m.knox

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LOL - evidently it was the "i'm more progressive than you" argument last night at the democratic debate..... I'm rubber, your glue.... must have been humorous. And Chas thinks there is nothing wrong with the party..... Leftwingers trying to out leftwing one another.

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/progressive-candidates-make-progress-on-defining-050655760.html

Progressive. Progressive. Progressive.

Thursday night’s Democratic debate was dominated by one word and a fight between two candidates about what “progressive” means and who best represents its definition.

Over the course of two hours, the word “progressive” was uttered by the two Democratic presidential hopefuls 19 times. Hillary Clinton far outscored Bernie Sanders in number of uses, 16 to 3, according to a Yahoo News review of a transcript of the debate.

In one answer early on,Clinton used the word “progressive” nine times.

“I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive is ‘progress.’ But I’ve heard Sen. Sanders’ comments, and it’s really caused me to wonder who’s left in the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. Under his definition, President Obama is not progressive because he took donations from Wall Street; Vice President Biden is not progressive because he supported Keystone,” Clinton said immediately before giving a shout-out to New Hampshire’s Democratic senator. “Sen. [Jeanne] Shaheen is not progressive because she supports the trade pact.
 
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