A progressive is a person who want to live in a society where everybody is valued and the vast majority can afford a decent living and even the dignity and lives of the very needy are valued. When making a business decision, a progressive will take into consideration not just the company's profits, but also among other things, the benefits to its work force and the ecologycal impact on our environments, ect. A progressive will stand for freedom of expression and against government spying on its citizens. A progressive know it is better to work for peace and favors cooperations with the rest of the world instead trying to impose by force phony democratic systems.

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