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The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types -- the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton	added by Normando 5 months ago
When you take dollars from Trump supporters and try to pass yourself as a part of the progressive movement – man, sit down. – Brandon Johnson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
To me, progressive is forward thinking, moving into the future and building a better city, for too long, we have not followed that definition of progressive. Progressive is a city that works and functions and builds toward the future. – Joel Engardio	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Branden Camp/AP had no problem being identified as a progressive evangelical, at one time, there was a strong element within the( Southern Baptist) Convention that would be identified as progressive evangelicalism, but now that’s pretty much been obliterated. – Randall Balmer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
At one time, there was a strong element within the( Southern Baptist) Convention that would be identified as progressive evangelicalism, but now that’s pretty much been obliterated. – Randall Balmer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is simple: the District of Columbia must be allowed to govern itself. Democrats’ commitment to home rule should apply regardless of the substance of the local legislation, this is why the Congressional Progressive Caucus and its members have endorsed D.C. statehood, with every CPC member cosponsoring D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton’s bill in the 117th Congress. Statehood is the only way to protect the 700,000 residents of the District from this kind of interference, we will continue to champion this cause. – Pramila Jayapal	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is really important for people who have a progressive dementing syndrome like FTD to continue to eat well, exercise regularly, and stay connected with people. Those activities are not medications, they’re not curing the disease, but they can help your brain work as well as possible. – Henry Paulson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Aphasia really means problems with language, and that can vary from having trouble finding your words to understanding what people say. It can occur because of a tumor on the brain, a stroke or from a progressive neurodegenerative condition, because his diagnosis is frontotemporal dementia, Mr. Willis clearly has a progressive, neurodegenerative disease as opposed to a stroke or a tumor or some other lesion on the brain. – Henry Paulson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We've been really successful 30 miles outside of Washington, where everything appears to be broken and nothing but divisiveness and dysfunction. I'm in one of the bluest states in the country with a 70% progressive legislature, and I got them to cut taxes eight years in a row by $4.8 billion. And I had the biggest economic turnaround in America, i just don't think he [Donald Trump] happens to be our strongest nominee to win the election in November. – Lawrence Hogan	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It is very unusual in medicine to see such substantial international differences among wealthy countries in the approach their medical authorities take to treating patients, while major American medical organizations assert that puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are safe and effective for treating gender dysphoric youth, some of these European countries, all of which have a more progressive climate for LGBT + people, have taken a closer look at the evidence. – Moti Gorin	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
That House Democrats' final act in the majority was to strike one last blow in their relentless war against Donald Trump — in the process running roughshod over the very norms and institutions they so claim to cherish — marks a fitting end to their progressive rule, and tells you all you need to know about their priorities and posture as they lose their grip on power, this was of a piece with the Soviet show trial-style January 6th Committee that recently reached its unceremonious conclusion, the primary purpose of which was never to unearth truth or hold people to account, but to politically persecute political foes declared guilty at the outset while the Biden Justice Department does the Democrats' legal bidding in criminalizing its political opponents. – Benjamin Weingarten	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We are gratified that Secretary Cardona's Potemkin village 'Parents Council' will be disbanded, because families should never be used merely as props to advance progressive policies, parental engagement is essential for students to succeed; accordingly, it is critical that ALL voices and perspectives be integrated into any feedback mechanism that the Biden Administration operates - and that the Department of Education respect the rule of law. – Education President Nicole Neily	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Joe Biden’s failure to curb inflation, his big-government agenda and his caving to the progressive left were anchors that weighed down Democrats in many competitive districts and Republicans were able to explain this to both their base and to persuadable voters, it wasn’t a 'red wave,' as many hoped for, but Republicans now hold the gavels in the House, which means they can stop more bad economic policies from getting passed and exercise proper oversight over the Biden administration. Winning the House majority is a big deal and it should not be minimized. – Kevin Seifert	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Candidates up and down the ballot — from progressive to more conservative — were hurt by Joe Manchin’s stalling of the Democratic economic agenda for an entire year, manchin owes all Democrats and the country an apology. – Adam Green	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
While it's more centrist than the nation at large, increasingly there is a working-class Black vote, a Black male vote (reflecting a growing gender-gap) and a Black evangelical vote.These subsets are increasingly acting and voting the way that their white counterparts do, when combined with the centrism of Blacks, the monolith of 90% of Blacks voting the same way that we saw in 2008 is over. In fact, every year since then the vote has split more and more. This change is largely a function of the disdain that Blacks have for the progressive agenda. – Horace Cooper	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
So if these cities pick up the liberal progressive mantra of allowing noncitizens to vote, they will be able to vote not only in their local elections but on increasing the taxes payable by the nonresident workers who commute into the city to work, that's why all of us — township residents, folks in the unincorporated area, folks in the rural area — better wake up. – Bill Seitz	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Many of the things creeping into progressive schools are things that the state supports but a lot of parents do not, the moms voting for Lee Zeldin want a return to the foundations of education: math, reading and science. We don't need political activism or age-inappropriate lessons for our kids. – Yiatan Chu	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We need to know the extent to which Special Envoy John Kerry is farming his work out to progressive environmentalists, which could be a violation of federal law. – Michael McCaul	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Personally, I think he doesn't care what kind of news he gets, whether it's bad or good, it's news, his name comes up on the airwaves, and I think it gives him some kind of self-gratification. I also think that he is a progressive person, left, that for some reason he believes people should not be accountable for their crimes, which is a very dangerous, very dangerous person. – Daniel Faulkner	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
John Arnold's millions have propped up many left-wing causes but none so dangerous as the woke justice movement that has decimated New York, the groups Arnold funds peddle utopian pipe dreams under the guise of progressive reform. – Scott Walter	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The groups Arnold funds peddle utopian pipe dreams under the guise of progressive reform, but the victims won't be billionaires like him. They'll disproportionately be poor people of color. – Scott Walter	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
A high turnout for us has been about 25 %, so we're not talking about a real representation of the Democratic party in Vermont, it'll be the most engaged( voters deciding the winner) and they'll tend to be on the progressive side. – Rich Clark	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Even people who are reasonably progressive in their beliefs and politics have become quite radical [ in their opposition to ] this thing, which really, really worries me, not least to the actual risk of queer people existing in public, but in the United States, we've seen it tied into a much broader attempt to rollback LGBT rights. – United States	Found on CNN 1 year ago
[A] public policy of simply discouraging people from owning or using firearms is not, in and of itself, a constitutionally permissible objective, any more than discouraging people from religious observance would be permissible to some oh-so-progressive government that considered religion as hopelessly declassé as progressives nowadays consider the right to keep and bear arms .... And any statute or regulation that burdens the right to keep and bear arms on the ground that guns are a public health hazard should enjoy the same frosty reception in court that would be given a statute or regulation that burdened the free exercise of religion as a mental hazard. – Daniel D. Polsby	added by Normando 1 year ago

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types -- the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.

– Gilbert Keith Chesterton

added by Normando
5 months ago

When you take dollars from Trump supporters and try to pass yourself as a part of the progressive movement – man, sit down.

– Brandon Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To me, progressive is forward thinking, moving into the future and building a better city, for too long, we have not followed that definition of progressive. Progressive is a city that works and functions and builds toward the future.

– Joel Engardio

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Branden Camp/AP had no problem being identified as a progressive evangelical, at one time, there was a strong element within the( Southern Baptist) Convention that would be identified as progressive evangelicalism, but now that’s pretty much been obliterated.

– Randall Balmer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At one time, there was a strong element within the( Southern Baptist) Convention that would be identified as progressive evangelicalism, but now that’s pretty much been obliterated.

– Randall Balmer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is simple: the District of Columbia must be allowed to govern itself. Democrats’ commitment to home rule should apply regardless of the substance of the local legislation, this is why the Congressional Progressive Caucus and its members have endorsed D.C. statehood, with every CPC member cosponsoring D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton’s bill in the 117th Congress. Statehood is the only way to protect the 700,000 residents of the District from this kind of interference, we will continue to champion this cause.

– Pramila Jayapal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is really important for people who have a progressive dementing syndrome like FTD to continue to eat well, exercise regularly, and stay connected with people. Those activities are not medications, they’re not curing the disease, but they can help your brain work as well as possible.

– Henry Paulson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Aphasia really means problems with language, and that can vary from having trouble finding your words to understanding what people say. It can occur because of a tumor on the brain, a stroke or from a progressive neurodegenerative condition, because his diagnosis is frontotemporal dementia, Mr. Willis clearly has a progressive, neurodegenerative disease as opposed to a stroke or a tumor or some other lesion on the brain.

– Henry Paulson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We've been really successful 30 miles outside of Washington, where everything appears to be broken and nothing but divisiveness and dysfunction. I'm in one of the bluest states in the country with a 70% progressive legislature, and I got them to cut taxes eight years in a row by $4.8 billion. And I had the biggest economic turnaround in America, i just don't think he [Donald Trump] happens to be our strongest nominee to win the election in November.

– Lawrence Hogan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It is very unusual in medicine to see such substantial international differences among wealthy countries in the approach their medical authorities take to treating patients, while major American medical organizations assert that puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are safe and effective for treating gender dysphoric youth, some of these European countries, all of which have a more progressive climate for LGBT + people, have taken a closer look at the evidence.

– Moti Gorin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

That House Democrats' final act in the majority was to strike one last blow in their relentless war against Donald Trump — in the process running roughshod over the very norms and institutions they so claim to cherish — marks a fitting end to their progressive rule, and tells you all you need to know about their priorities and posture as they lose their grip on power, this was of a piece with the Soviet show trial-style January 6th Committee that recently reached its unceremonious conclusion, the primary purpose of which was never to unearth truth or hold people to account, but to politically persecute political foes declared guilty at the outset while the Biden Justice Department does the Democrats' legal bidding in criminalizing its political opponents.

– Benjamin Weingarten

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We are gratified that Secretary Cardona's Potemkin village 'Parents Council' will be disbanded, because families should never be used merely as props to advance progressive policies, parental engagement is essential for students to succeed; accordingly, it is critical that ALL voices and perspectives be integrated into any feedback mechanism that the Biden Administration operates - and that the Department of Education respect the rule of law.

– Education President Nicole Neily

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Joe Biden’s failure to curb inflation, his big-government agenda and his caving to the progressive left were anchors that weighed down Democrats in many competitive districts and Republicans were able to explain this to both their base and to persuadable voters, it wasn’t a 'red wave,' as many hoped for, but Republicans now hold the gavels in the House, which means they can stop more bad economic policies from getting passed and exercise proper oversight over the Biden administration. Winning the House majority is a big deal and it should not be minimized.

– Kevin Seifert

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Candidates up and down the ballot — from progressive to more conservative — were hurt by Joe Manchin’s stalling of the Democratic economic agenda for an entire year, manchin owes all Democrats and the country an apology.

– Adam Green

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

While it's more centrist than the nation at large, increasingly there is a working-class Black vote, a Black male vote (reflecting a growing gender-gap) and a Black evangelical vote.These subsets are increasingly acting and voting the way that their white counterparts do, when combined with the centrism of Blacks, the monolith of 90% of Blacks voting the same way that we saw in 2008 is over. In fact, every year since then the vote has split more and more. This change is largely a function of the disdain that Blacks have for the progressive agenda.

– Horace Cooper

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

So if these cities pick up the liberal progressive mantra of allowing noncitizens to vote, they will be able to vote not only in their local elections but on increasing the taxes payable by the nonresident workers who commute into the city to work, that's why all of us — township residents, folks in the unincorporated area, folks in the rural area — better wake up.

– Bill Seitz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Many of the things creeping into progressive schools are things that the state supports but a lot of parents do not, the moms voting for Lee Zeldin want a return to the foundations of education: math, reading and science. We don't need political activism or age-inappropriate lessons for our kids.

– Yiatan Chu

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We need to know the extent to which Special Envoy John Kerry is farming his work out to progressive environmentalists, which could be a violation of federal law.

– Michael McCaul

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Personally, I think he doesn't care what kind of news he gets, whether it's bad or good, it's news, his name comes up on the airwaves, and I think it gives him some kind of self-gratification. I also think that he is a progressive person, left, that for some reason he believes people should not be accountable for their crimes, which is a very dangerous, very dangerous person.

– Daniel Faulkner

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

John Arnold's millions have propped up many left-wing causes but none so dangerous as the woke justice movement that has decimated New York, the groups Arnold funds peddle utopian pipe dreams under the guise of progressive reform.

– Scott Walter

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The groups Arnold funds peddle utopian pipe dreams under the guise of progressive reform, but the victims won't be billionaires like him. They'll disproportionately be poor people of color.

– Scott Walter

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

A high turnout for us has been about 25 %, so we're not talking about a real representation of the Democratic party in Vermont, it'll be the most engaged( voters deciding the winner) and they'll tend to be on the progressive side.

– Rich Clark

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even people who are reasonably progressive in their beliefs and politics have become quite radical [ in their opposition to ] this thing, which really, really worries me, not least to the actual risk of queer people existing in public, but in the United States, we've seen it tied into a much broader attempt to rollback LGBT rights.

– United States

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[A] public policy of simply discouraging people from owning or using firearms is not, in and of itself, a constitutionally permissible objective, any more than discouraging people from religious observance would be permissible to some oh-so-progressive government that considered religion as hopelessly declassé as progressives nowadays consider the right to keep and bear arms .... And any statute or regulation that burdens the right to keep and bear arms on the ground that guns are a public health hazard should enjoy the same frosty reception in court that would be given a statute or regulation that burdened the free exercise of religion as a mental hazard.

– Daniel D. Polsby

added by Normando
1 year ago

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