The bashing of the Progressives (my own last post here in GDP)

[joshcryer]

10. "Progressives" bash actual progress.

If you told me 8 short years ago that a Presidential candidate could actually run on gun control I would've laughed in your face. I would've told you the country is too gun friendly, that the 2nd Amendment has to be pandered to, and so on. You would've called me a moderate, pragmatist, pandering to the NRA.

Go back, this is less than 8 years ago: http://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2008/05/clinton-mailing-attacks-obama-on-guns-008390

8 years.

Now, as a "progressive" what do we do? We take a political ad like that, and we go "OMG, look at lying Hillary! Look at how horrible she was being! Now she's a flip flopper! OMG!"

But guess what, we as a country have shifted dramatically on gun control in 8 short years. Dramatically. All the mass murders. People's access to mass media. Internet penetration. A generation of kids growing up with gun massacres at schools. This shit wasn't happening before. And it needs to be fixed.

So we're progressing, very rapidly in that direction, with candidates running on gun control. Unfathomable 8 years ago. Like my candidate in Colorado, Mark Udall, who ran on gun control, but "progressives" threw him under the bus, because he was an evil Third Wayer.