A progressive is a person who understands that the quality of life is the ultimate common social goal supported by the integrity of the matrix of air, water, soil, animals and all the other humans.The essential facilitating and regulating tool is commerce but a socially subservient commerce nurtured and guided by government by and for the people and not the other way around such as it exists today.Today, people are the tools and servants of corporations and overblown government bureaucracies, the antithesis of progressive.

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