It’s hard to believe now, but the modern Democrats really got their start with the Labor movement. There was a time when they ACTUALLY tried to help workers in their negotiations with, and not infrequent battles with, large and often highly abusive corporations.
But I would say the peak of actual PROGRESS for Labor was reached some time between perhaps 1965 and 1985. Big Labor has been in decline since. There is a parabolic arc, going up, up up, then down down. It of course is nowhere near, now, where it was in say 1890, so much of the progress has been retained, but the reality is that union greed and stupidity in the 1980’s, particularly, cost many millions of good workers their jobs, and permanently (to this point at least) ruined the economies of many northeast states.
Feminism peaked around 2016, with MeToo movement, and has since been forced into the back seat by the LGB movement; and that movement, in turn, has in actuality, in my view, been also relegated to second status by the Trans movement, which is nothing short of an organized propaganda offensive directed first and foremost at our children.
And of course “Progressivism” itself also peaks and declines. The United States is currently targeted for economic decline. All the workers, all the women, all the homosexuals, and all the transgenders in Venezuela are suffering now. That misery does not discriminate. All are equal, other than the more equal pigs running the place.
People of good will and sincerity, as I (obviously) think cannot be said often enough, PAY ATTENTION. If you care about people, you look after them, and that means looking AT them and understanding where they are and where they are most likely going, and doing what helps, and stopping doing what hurts.
We live in a world of hallucinatory multicolored balloons, floating everywhere, spewing words and slogans and hate and distraction, and facilitating misery and regression they call progress and felicity.
I can say that in the 1890’s I would have supported both the Labor movement and sound money. They understood the importance of sound money back then, making them smarter than us. Now, of course, what I mostly seek and fail to find are honest men and women. We need a Party of Truth, but of course in reality it would fill nearly instantly with liars. What we need are simply sincere, good natured and reasonably intelligent people governing us, but that is not what we have.