If you take Waldman's 2006 definition of "progressive" and then think about its implications, I think it leads inescapably to socialism. That's how I became a socialist. Though I don't think Waldman himself followed that path.

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Illegal orders are nothing new. The USA has been starting wars ("interventions") almost constantly, at least since 1946, all based on lies, killing millions of people.

What is new is not the crimes or the obedience to illegal orders, but the fact that they're so visible. But the USA has had many, many wars since 1946, all based on lies. We need to remind everyone of that.

What's wrong with ACP ?

I'm new at this, and I haven't gotten very far in comparing the various "tendencies."

Start using the phrase "human civilization." We humans will survive together or not at all.

D's and R's are trying to please the same donors.

It didn't start with Trump. The USA has been in many many wars, far more than most people realize. All of them, at least since 1946, have been wars of aggression, based on lies. So our military has obeyed illegal orders, killing millions of people. I'm ashamed of my species -- but we can be better.

What would you recommend that we do?

Stephen, you skipped a step. Trump's stormtroopers are largely coming for people of color.

Russia and China both had revolutions that largely replaced competition with collaboration. The quality of life improved greatly in both places. I would call that evidence, not woowoo.

[c't'd] ... we've been spending on wars and spent it on scientific research instead. But it requires collaboration. Not our present mode, competition.

You don't have to read much of the data and research. Just read a little and think about it. The ice is melting. The albedo is falling.

We could slow down the change if we stopped using fossil fuels. We might be able to find some way to reverse the change, if we took the money ... [continued]

I wish people would stop making up sh*t about Putin, or more generally about Russia. They've been doing it for over a century. (And Putin had some good reasons for invading Ukraine, but you won't hear about them in American mainstream news.)

Do you also believe there are no ethical actions, and no point in living?

I believe that if humans began collaborating, we might be able to save the ecosystem and our species.

I would say the cause of the problem is not "human activity," as such. Rather, it is "non-collaborative human activity," or more basically "non-collaborative human culture."

Millionaires shouldn't exist.

I don't know exactly about Germany. But as I understand it (admittedly not well), Germany and Japan were allies. FDR provoked Japan, leading to war between US and Japan, and then it was also between US and Germany.

Roosevelt did that because he wanted to enter the war on the side of the British and French, because the British and French bankers had some connections with the American bankers.