http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/11/progressives-lost-the-election-but-their-ideas-are-winning/382559/

Cheer up, liberals.
RICHARD V. REEVESNOV 10 2014

"Progressives, these days, are a gloomy bunch, and it's not just because of the outcomes of last week's election. As they see it, there's much to be gloomy about: Poverty levels are stuck, they say, with little improvements made in recent decades. What's more, according to the standard progressive line, income inequality is soaring, and back to levels last seen in the roaring '20s. And, to top it all off, middle class incomes are flat, or even falling.

But here's the thing: Each of these claims is a significant overstatement. In fact: Progressives have every reason to be celebrating right now. Why? Because by and large, things aren't so bad as progressives claim, and the reason things aren't so bad is because progressive policies are working. Medicare and Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits, tax cuts favoring the working poor, expansion of health coverage, and so on—all of these policies are making Americans better off than they would otherwise be.

Poverty: Down
The official poverty measure is next to useless, given that it was set in the 1960s, and fails to take account of real incomes. If we use a more robust measure, one that includes the value of government benefits and transfers and treats income taxes (and tax credits) in a plausible way, poverty has actually fallen quite sharply in recent decades"

Read the rest at: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/11/progressives-lost-the-election-but-their-ideas-are-winning/382559/

We are still in the clutches of Reagan's "trickle down" BS. You are so far up Reagans butt that you don't see anything that he did to destroy the working men and women's lives. I guess if you're not looking for it it never happened.

Right? Like the research proved....If a fact comes along but doesn't resonate with one's belief they will twist it to better fit. Opinion's, they also found, are not based on fact, they are based on belief. And your beliefs come from the likes of Fox News et al.

I don't think of it as doing nothing. I compare Harry's war in the Senate to the Battle of Britain...that is to say staving off an aggressive and clearly in-the-wrong axis power...the Republican party...the most un-American force to exist. A party so devoid of ethics it sold itself to factions that would enslave the population, take what little money they were permitted to make to line the pockets of their wealthy backers and ensure ignorance by making a good education available to only a select few.