The other day in a discussion elsewhere on FB someone wrote:”Great job the progressives are doing.” and I gave my list of all the things Progressives have done but then realized I also needed a list for all the things Conservatives have achieved and here is the list I have developed so far. Suggestions for additions are welcome.
I thought I would put the two lists ide by side here from comparisons.
Progressives:
- The end of acid rain in the northeast
- The restoration of the ozone layer in the arctic
- The GI Bill
- The Clean Air Act
- The Clean Water Act
- Worker safety protections
- Social security
- Ended school segregation
- Earned Income Tax Credit
- Food and drug safety regulation
- The Pure Food and Drug Act
- The Meat Inspection Act
- The space program
- The Peace Corps
- A women’s right to vote
- Americans With Disabilities Act
- The Voting Rights Act*
- The Civil Rights Act
- Medicare/Medicaid
- Our leadership in the world of technology
- Fair housing regulations
- The employee healthcare benefits we have
- Organized labor
- The Wagner Act and the National Labor Relations Board
- 40 hour work week
- Child labor laws
- Food Stamps SNAP
- The Federal Trade Commission Act
- The Clayton Antitrust Act
- The United States Forest Service
- The National Weather Service
- The Interstate Highway System
- National Air Traffic Control
- The Child Tax Credit program (every single Republican voted against it)
- The Tennessee Valley Authority Project
- The Securities and Exchange Commission
- The Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- The Glass-Steagall Act (which was tragically and recently repealed by Republicans)
- Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act
- The Federal Railroad Safety Program
Conservatives
- Conservatism has succeeded in denying climate change stalling or killing off any legislative action on the issue.
- Conservatism has propped up (provided corporate welfare to) the oil and coal industry instead of investing in new energy technologies.
- Conservatism has prevented widespread access to sex education and birth control
- Conservatism has severally restricted or eliminated a woman’s right to chose.
- Conservatism has effectively killed progress towards making the minimum wage a real living wage.
- Conservatism has taken us from a lender economy to a debtor economy by throwing ridiculous amounts of money at the military.
- Conservatism has effectively built a fear of immigrants and immigration.
- Conservatism has made us the nation with the highest incarceration rate.
- Conservatism has given us white supremacy.
- Conservatism has given us the right wing militias that are threatening us constantly.
- Conservatism has given us an unusually high rate of gun violence for a developed and wealthy nation.
- Conservatism has given us the 2021 US Capital Insurrection. It was 100% conservatives.
- Conservatism have fought for a proportional tax (also referred to as a flat tax) or regressive tax system
- Conservatism has heightened vaccine hesitancy and made it a political statement.