Why isn't our nation progressive?

[Kevboy]

Why are we just going backwards? Are we going backwards? Is it because we can't handle technology with our growing ignorance?

[That Socialist Guy]

People like conservatives holding us back along with the media and its propaganda towards real leftist ideals.

[JohnFirst Name]

Because the people that pay the politians don't want to progress.

[Eclipse-girl]

No, it is because the people and corporations with the deepest pockets are not progressive

I am thinking of people like Sheldon Adelson, and the Koch Bros. The Waltons and Vos families also use there fortunes for conservative political causes.

[kingblue125]

Because no politician wants to actually do anything to jeopardize their seat.

[K]

Because we're built on Puritan ideals (I recognize they didn't always practice those ideals, but they were still ideals for them).
I don't see anything wrong with that.
But just because you're going forward doesn't mean you're going to a better place.

[Armada]

Think of the thousands of people who have made there money and left USA. USA IS bankrupt. Looks like use will go downhill from no on haha.

[Agent 99]

We're becoming more entittled, more dependent on government, we have questionable foreign policy, we're more divided, more economically stagnant and more radical. Yeah, we're progressing alright, right towards the end of the damn Grand Canyon. More laws and regulations that have nothing to do with what they're drafted for, ridiculous spending by government, lack of compromise in government, more taxes and yet less jobs.

When a Georgetown professor, someone who is in the influence and position of authority says we should do away with a document that has guided and protected America for more than 200 years, the US Constitution I seriously wonder what the hell he plans to replace it with that can even come close to the Bill of Rights or any other amendment. He knows better than Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Roosevelt and Lincoln? No, sorry, his opinon means nothing compared to the aforementioned people.

[little princess]

The political term progressive does not relate to anything that's actually progress. Rather it's just surrendering more and more control to the government.

[George S]

No, we aren't. We are going ever farther into domination from self-serving politicians trying to rule every step we take and every breath we breath. They get justification from the many spoiled and sheltered little children in adult bodies crying for imaginary mommies and daddies in government to pretend they can protect their little children citizens all ways and always.

We now have a progressive society and going ever more into socialist policies as citizens want to suck ever more from our society. It is already drained to near bankruptcy but citizens want to suck it completely dry.

True liberalism advocates: individual freedom, weak government, and free markets. Conservatism advocates: moral responsibility, strong government, and protected markets ("neo-cons" with international businesses have adopted freer market policies). Progressives advocate: social concern, omniscient government, and controlled markets. Socialism advocates: social responsibility, omnipresent government, and collective markets. Today most progressives and some socialists fraudulently call themselves "liberal."