How the Progressive Party Saves the World... or Not

By Mike Boots

We need to understand what makes two different people think they know what is going on in this world but have two completely different views. We think the other is crazy. It's common sense, right? How can they think that way?

If you follow politics closely and are not caught up in any conspiracy theory, you will agree with most of what I say in this book. For you, I kind of confirm your beliefs and give a strategy for the working class to succeed in the future. For those of you that follow and believe in any mainstream media, whether CNN or Fox News, this is a must-read because if I can move you closer to reality then we just might save the world.

Most importantly, I hope I can convey how we need to come together to protect our right to vote and its importance.

Don't worry. All of us normal people are on the same side.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Sep 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9781662484865

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How the Progressive Party Saves the World... or Not

Mike Boots

Copyright © 2022 Mike Boots

All rights reserved

First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING

Conneaut Lake, PA

First originally published by Page Publishing 2022

ISBN 978-1-6624-8485-8 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-6624-8486-5 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Choose a Side

Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism

People to Listen To

Hypocrisy and Misinformation

FDR

How to Manipulate the Vote 101

Immigration

Insurrection

We Need Progressives like Nina

New Republican Party

What Happened to the Democratic Party

Every Vote Counts

Religion

The Supreme Court

Speaking My Mind to M.A.G.A

The Future

Scenario #1

Scenario #2

Scenario #3

The Big Finish

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Choose a Side

Some say we need more than a two-party system. There is the Independent Party that has to choose between the Republican or Democrat Party if they want their vote to count toward the elected winner. The Independent Party, while being the largest party, does not have a particular set of policies other than not being Republican or Democrat. Also the Libertarian Party or the Green Party, they just don't have the funding or support to compete and are usually blamed for being a spoiler for either the Democrats or Republicans if they lose.

We all know we need more than one party. Unless we could strictly vote on the policies and character of a politician, a one-party system would end democracy. A single party in power, Democrats or Republicans, will set legislation in the direction of the highest bidder. Will mass have more and more power while it restricts the rights and freedoms of anyone who can't afford it? Even working-class Republicans assume they are on the side of the wealthy because they identify with hardworking, pull yourself up by your bootstraps mentality. But money and power are just that, money and power. You think they would be on the side of a small business owner but that would be laughable big business and monopolies would rule, and the wealthiest people would own 100 percent of everything.

Luckily we still have a two-party system and recently we may have a couple more choices, kinda. It seems the Republican Party has been taken over by Trumpism as there are still non-Trump Republicans. In my opinion, they are tearing each other apart and destroying the Republican Party which I never supported. They have no policies; they are no longer the party of law and order or budget awareness. All they care about is lowering taxes and weakening regulations. And they concentrate on culture wars to spread hate and division. The goal of the new Republican Party in these next elections is to throw red meat to their base and try to restrict voting to opposing voters. They know if voting was easy they would either never win another election or would have to adopt policies that help the working class.

Now let's talk about Democrats. Today's Democrat is the Republican Party of the past. Totally taken over by corporatism. Fossil fuel, healthcare, and even the NRA are in on it. So, like Trumpism has taken over the Republican Party, Progressives are doing their best to move the Democratic Party back to the left. Democrats use the media, a corporate organization, to smear Progressives by repeating Republican talking points such as having a socialist agenda and impossible policies because they interfere with the Democrats' corporate agenda. So, like the right has become infiltrated with Trumpism, the left has a Progressive movement trying to pull Democrats back to what they used to stand for in the days of FDR. Progressives want the American worker to be compensated fairly.

They don't believe that billionaires should exist by exploiting workers and manipulating the system. This is the only way someone could accumulate this kind of wealth. It is from paying low wages, reducing benefits, and bribing legislators that makes this possible. When corporate donors donate to politicians they do it for a reason; it's a bribe to pass legislation that benefits them. The Progressive movement takes zero money from Super PACs or large corporate groups. Progressives are beholden to average Americans because that is who their donors are. Democrats and Republicans are beholden to their donors, the wealthy and large corporations or the 1 percent.

Democrats today have been moving more to the right since before Pres. Jimmy Carter and took a major move right with the election of Pres. Bill Clinton who moved toward a smaller government. These changes have been just as destructive to the middle-class worker and union building as they are beneficial to Wall Street, large corporations, and the military industrial complex. If not for continued support for social security, Medicare, Medicaid, and a few scraps here and there that help the least fortunate of us, the Democratic Party would be no different from the Republican Party. Those scraps and social benefits are what keep most of this country voting Democrat. If you're a Democrat, what are you going to do, vote Republican where they want to end social programs so the wealthiest can get wealthier and you have the opportunity to work harder.

As for these Republicans, they are convinced that the more we help the less fortunate the more taxes they have to pay. In this universe, hardworking Americans are made to think they are paying for people who don't want to work. For example, Ronald Reagan's welfare queen comment puts a label on out-of-work black people expressing that they have no work ethic and would rather sit home and raise children on our hardworking American's dollar.

Let's admit the obvious