>>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"
OK, "all of this" is pretty broad.
Do you think that conservatives have not fought labor unions?
Do you think that conservatives have not sought to decimate affirmative action and voter access granted by the voting rights act?
Anyone who does not go overboard- deserves to.
Malcolm Forbes, Sr.