Bipartisan Senate group proposes ‘no fly, no buy’ gun measure

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(10-15-2018, 08:40 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Of course.  You do know the root word of progressive?  You do know how many times values have turned over since then?  You know how many times conservatives have been shown wrong by new values standards at least?

Morality evolves.  What is acceptable by the old values from before the crisis is not acceptable by the new.  There is a valid arrow of progress, which though the Industrial Age has pointed towards more rights, more equality, more democracy, and better integration with new technology.  Always, conservatives cling to privilege and are wrong in doing so.  

Of course, I am seeing a new age.  The patterns that held in the Industrial Age may not hold in the new.  I kind of hope they will.

Yes, I know/understand what the word means and how the word relates to the advancement of people, society, the arrow of progress and so forth. However, the word is also used with modern politics and the word has a political meaning and understanding associated with it when it's used politically and viewed in a political context as well. Well, I'm not a blue snow flake so the idea of Thomas Jefferson owning slaves (black people) and the idea of Jefferson's wife not having any rights or being recognized as equal doesn't bother me knowing that that's just the way it was in America back then.