Progressives: We’ve Never Heard Of This “Progressive” Group Backing Obama’s Trade Deal
3/12/15
WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, progressives were surprised to learn they were “split” on President Obama’s trade agenda.
Few issues have galvanized the American left like trade promotion authority, legislation that would pave the way for the administration to fast-track trade negotiations and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) — the trade deal the Obama administration is working tirelessly to make a reality and many Democrats oppose. From senators to the activists that make up the organized left (trade unions, environmentalists, human rights advocates), progressives can’t stand the trade deal.
Yet there it was in black and white: “RIFT AMONG PROGRESSIVES EMERGES ON TPP,” read a headline in Politico’s daily labor and employment tipsheet, Morning Shift. The short item detailed the emergence of the “Progressive Coalition for American Jobs ” — a group of “progressives and Democrats committed to leveling the playing field for American workers,” according to the coalition’s barebones website. The website adds that “it’s critical that we give the president trade promotion authority and establish the Trans-Pacific Partnership.”
There’s something weird about the group, though: No one in the Washington, D.C., progressive community seems to have ever heard of them before.
“Who are they? Are they getting paid? And this group will convince anybody of what?” asked Sen. Sherrod Brown. “There is zero progressive interest in this [trade promotion authority].”
....“It’s insulting,” said Candice Johnson, spokesperson for the Communications Workers of America, one of the many unions organized against TPP. “You put progressive in your name and that’s going to convince people?”
She called the group “fake,” noting that it includes none of the biggest names in progressive politics in its coalition. Johnson wasn’t alone in that characterization.
“As far as I know, the only thing ‘progressive’ about this so called ‘Progressive Coalition for American Jobs’ is the first word of the group’s name,” said Becky Bond, president of CREDO, the San Francisco-based progressive activist known to tangle publicly with the White House.
The Progressive Coalition For American Jobs strikes a nerve with organized progressives, who often feel sidelined in prominent debates, even during the Obama administration. The invovlment of 270 Strategies, which supported the candidate progressives opposed in a strange Democrat-vs-Democrat California congressional race last year, was particularly upsetting for some on the left.
“At this point, 270 strategies is well known for its AstroTurf efforts to slap a progressive label on the endeavors of Wall Street Wing Democrats and their corporate masters, but this is an earth-shattering new low,” Neil Sroka, spokesperson for Democracy For America, the progressive group formed from the remnants of Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential bid, told BuzzFeed News in an email. “You can be a progressive committed to fighting for working families or you can be for this massive job-killing trade deal written by 500 corporate reps, but you can’t be both.”...
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Again, 
They give out cufflinks as thank you gifts.
No wonder we are in the fix we're in. "Our side" isn't actually our side.
I like how your images line up, though. 
indeed, sir
It doesn't make sense unless it was designed by a libertarian. For one thing, it appears that they use social issues and nothing else to determine the right left axis, also, the poles on top or bottom don't appear to me to make any sense at all.
It is nothing like the more valid graphs used to objectively measure political leanings, it appears to be just propaganda.
We need to find out who designed it, to what purpose, and why it is used specifically for Hillary Clintron in order to spoof the similar graphs that once were used to legitimately place people on the right left spectrum.
I suspect it was designed deliberately to mislead. I would like us all to try to discover it's origin, it's methodology and what faux progressive or astro turf group is responsible for it.
It is obviously bullshit, and I would like it to be answered every time it appears succinctly, with facts, as to why it is bullshit and who is behind it.
Just compare it to the chart usually used, one that is/was used before I ever saw the one that places Clinton inexplicably far left.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2008
Some example graphics taken from the page I linked above.
As you can see, when not using a fake chart and methodology, one can see a more realistic placement of Hillary Clinton.
Knowing or sensing it is bullshit is one thing, shoving the lie in their faces with truth and an explanation as to how, why, and by whom the misinformation is spread woul,d be to expose a scam that has become of critical importance the more Vannila and friends use it to lie and the uninformed that just take the lie at face value because it looks to them like valid charts they have seen before.
We have clever people here, lets completely unmask this bit of propaganda for all to see evey time they pull it out of their third way trickster bag!
You should make this an OP.
..."The American Worker can compete with any worker in the world",
and everybody cheered because they didn't understand that he was REALLY saying,
The American Worker will be forced to compete with 3rd World Slave Labor for their jobs.
There is a line in the OP from the phoney "Progressive" group that reminded me of that old Clinton line:
“progressives and Democrats committed to leveling the playing field for American workers,
Yes, but what they mean by "leveling the playing field" is to cut American "Worker" Wages and Benefits to 3rd World levels (and increase their profit margin).
[font size=3] We're gonna TAKE it ALL, Suckers,
and you can't stop us.
We OWN you and the USA government, Suckers!!!!
Hahahahahahahaha!
