You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government.
I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.
This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.
I am not just a liberal movement. I come from the progressive Left. I am trying to refresh and counter the system.
You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.
If anything's progressive, then we make progress.
I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
We can dig ourselves out of the ditch that the progressives and Obama-ites have driven us into.
Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.