Hey progressives...Do you know who you really are??

Progressives are not supposed to be about big government. The original progressive movement during the 1890s-1920s period was a reaction against the Rockefeller monopolism of the time. "Progressives" rallied around efforts to stop the burgeoning efforts by the Rockefellers to literally take over the U.S. government in order to reduce/eliminate obstacles to Standard Oil Company (and its sister companies) using "eminent domain" whenever it was considered by the Rockefeller to be in their best interests. Progressives were also known as "trust busters" and even got a President, Teddy Roosevelt, into office by siding with Republicans during the 19-"Os."

When the Rockefellers completed their secretive and effective practical control of Congress (and often the Presidency, as well) by the 1920s, and despite there being no evidence that their power was (or would/could) wane due to the bogus "breakup" of the Standard Oil of New Jersey (into the "Seven Sisters"--the pieces of SONJ kept under Rockefeller control via front companies and interlocking boards of directorate,) the progressives gave up. Most of them did anyway, as they were convinced and fooled by the new Rockefeller P.R. strategy-- of bogus "philanthropy,"-- into essentially declaring victory and "going home."

Over time the progressives linked arms (often unwittingly) with socialists, and began to almost have no discernible variance from that larger group. Progressives weren't supposed to be about big government, initially. They were AGAINST big government being controlled by small groups of people (or one family, like the Rockefellers) and wanted to bring about "progress" through quite populist means. But now, they are almost indistinguishable from socialists, who are for COMMUNISM via peaceful means (as opposed to out-and-out Communists, who were/are for violent Communist revolution, globally.)

While the Rockefellers and "the oil powers" (which they STILL LEAD) have controlled the U.S. government, thoroughly, since the 1920s, the progressives have gradually become rather frequent recipients of Rockefeller largess through grants from their so-called tax-exempt foundations and trusts. Progressives, and their socialist bedfellows, now, routinely support causes put forward by Rockefeller globalists, which always favor BIG GOVERNMENT, and that government is kept under THEIR CONTROL by something that we now call "the deep state." The deep state is the apparati of bureaucrats at all levels of government that actually run everything, despite the results of any intervening "election."

Rockefeller "planners," "think tanks," sociologists, psychiatrists/psychologists, "community organizers," technocrats, and bureaucrats (i.e. all the non-productive jobs/elements in the economy) are the real U.S. government. The theater of "opposing major parties" and the good cop/bad cop routine surrounding the "presidential elections" every four years are nothing but sleight-of-hand pressure relief valves for the low-information public.

So, socialists and progressives...why don't you put your commendable zeal and diligence for populist-sounding reform into actually productive avenues, rail against "the man" by picking on the right "man," and join with we patriots/conservatives in the effort to re-establish real capitalism, and the Constitutional Republic?

Right now, you are aiding your enemies who use you as "useful idiots" in pushing forward totalitarianism and globalism.

Aren't you tired of that??

Take a look at this article which shows what socialism/progressivism has been doing in South America where the effort there is still (and far more) openly about oil power v. the people:

https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/the-rise-of-socialism-standing-on-the-shoulders-of-morons-24411/

Venezuela's problems are largely due to their resistance to the Rockefeller/American "pacifism" being overtly resisted in favor of a government that is, yes, independent; but paying a huge price, economically, for that independence. South American "Communists" aren't really Communists in the Marxist, Soviet, Maoist sense. They are anti-oil populist movements, which often forget (when elevated successfully to control of a nations' government) that they were birthed in the need to help people, not for their own governmental survival/profit.

Rave against "capitalism" all you want, progressives and socialists. We haven't had it since the 1890s in the USA, so you have no idea what you're even missing.