Standing on Principles: What Progressive Democrats Stand For

What do progressives believe in? • Moving forward, not backward. • The right to pursue life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness • Equality before the law. • Everyone (including the rich and corporations) paying their fair share. • The right to a job (and protection from off-shoring) in exchange for a willingness to work. • Government has a role to play in solving intractable problems. • Free public education is every American's birthright. • Affordable health care is a necessity, not a luxury. • Protection of Social Security from privatization. • Protection of water, air and other essential resources. • Sound and honest stewardship of our economic resources and budgets. • Protecting citizens/consumers against corporate abuse and lack of good faith. • Government should get out of the bedrooms and personal relationships of Americans. • War is the last resort, not the first. • The golden rule. • We are our brother's keeper.