A progressive believes that it is a legitimate goal of government to provide for the common welfare; that government should be a way for citizens to work together as a community to provide one another services and supports that we can't provide simply as a nation of individuals; that both in practical and moral terms, honoring and helping one another (and the earth that sustains us) is a higher goal than rugged individualism.

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