{"id":20909,"date":"2016-06-04T14:04:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T19:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20909"},"modified":"2016-06-04T14:04:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T19:04:26","slug":"california-nightmare-not-progressive-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20909","title":{"rendered":"California Nightmare: Not Progressive Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

California Nightmare: Not Progressive Anymore<\/a><\/h3>\n
<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
\n
\"California<\/p>\n

Water management is hardly progressive in California these days. Photo:\u00a0roam and shoot<\/a>\/Flickr CC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

If one more Californian tells me how \u201cprogressive\u201d California is, I am going to scream.<\/p>\n

\u201cProgressivism\u201d<\/a>\u00a0is the term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems that were introduced to America by industrialization. It began as a social movement and grew into a political one. Early Progressives rejected Social Darwinism, believing that the problems society faced \u2014 such as poverty, violence, greed, racism and class warfare \u2014 could best be addressed by providing a good education and efficient, safe workplace and protecting the environment.<\/p>\n

As the ideology developed, it came to represent four core values: Progressives have a two-part definition of freedom:\u00a0\u201cfreedom from\u201d and \u201cfreedom to.\u201d<\/p>\n

First, they believe that all people should have\u00a0freedom from\u00a0undue interference by governments and others in carrying out their private affairs and personal beliefs.\u00a0 This includes the rights to freedom of speech, association, and religion as well as the freedom to control one\u2019s own bodies and personal lives.<\/p>\n

Second, they believe that all people should have the\u00a0freedom to\u00a0lead a fulfilling and secure life supported by the basic foundations of economic security and opportunity.\u00a0 This includes physical protections against bodily harm as well as adequate income, economic protections, health care and education, and other social provisions.<\/p>\n

Complementing their commitment to human freedom is their belief in\u00a0opportunity.\u00a0 Like freedom, the concept of opportunity has two components:\u00a0 one focuses on political equality and the other on economic and social arrangements that enhance people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n

Along with freedom and opportunity comes\u00a0responsibility\u00a0\u2014 personal responsibility and the responsibility we have to each other and to the common good.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

California Nightmare: Not Progressive Anymore Water management is hardly progressive in California these days. Photo:\u00a0roam and shoot\/Flickr CC. If one more Californian tells me how \u201cprogressive\u201d California is, I am going to scream. \u201cProgressivism\u201d\u00a0is the term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems that were introduced to America by industrialization. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,13998,11356,13997,5970,866,4703,4628],"class_list":["post-20909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-california","tag-progressive","tag-progressivism","tag-sherry-ackerman","tag-transition-voice","tag-water","tag-water-management","tag-water-restrictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20910,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20909\/revisions\/20910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}