>>Because progressives have brought us pretty much all progress in the last couple of centuries:
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>>- labor unions gave people job safety, reasonable pay, and reasonable working hours;
>>- the creation of the FDA gave us food and drug safety;
>>- government backing of amortized mortgages brought home ownership to the masses;
>>- the civil rights and women's rights movements brought true equality closer than ever.
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>>Conservatives fought all of this.
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>Sorry Tamar, but no, conservatives did not "fight all of this"

The conservatives of the time did fight all of this. Whether today's conservatives would is a separate question.

Tamar