Want To Be a Progressive? Wait Until 2024 and Get Rid of Joe.

Earlier this week I published a story in which I had the audacity, the temerity to suggest that maybe Progressive Democrats should stop whining and kvetching about Joe and also stop mis-using the term ‘progressive, which doesn’t mean and has never meant what they believe it means.

The Progressive movement was a reaction against government. Today’s Progressives believe that more government is a good thing, less government is bad. The contemporary misuse of the term ‘progressive’ was the handiwork of alt-right shitheads like Glenn Beck and if some of my liberal friends want to help the other side continue to denigrate honest attempts to solve our problems by joining them in mis-stating both political history and facts, go right ahead.

But the attempt to rewrite history doesn’t change what happened in the past. And since you really can’t use the past to explain the present, I’ll continue to call out the so-called Progressive wing of the blue team for making statements and promoting political arguments which, as Grandpa would say, are ‘nisht zehr’ (read: not true.)

The United States happens to be the only industrialized, Western country that has never supported any kind of organized, mass political challenge to its capitalist structure except for a brief decade before and slightly after World…