The problem with liberalism in this country is that we have one major party, the Democrats, that has been co-opted by centrists whose general policy is to cave into far right-wing neoconservative policies. And we have a more or less scattered and un-unified majority that can't seem to come together under a single political party to stand as a true champion of progressive political and social values.

We need to change that. Sure, we have the Greens. But what is their strategy? Try to gain national attention by running candidates for president before a solid political party that can attain and REtain power on the lower levels has been established. This yields what I feel to be nothing in the way of real results. You don't build a house by fashioning the roof first. You build a foundation and work your way up. This shall be the purpose of the Progressive Party.

We will unite the progressive base; establish what our values are going to be and develop them; formulate and implement strategy for promoting our ideals to the public, and convincing them why our values are the true values favored by our Founders; run candidates first at local, then at state, and finally at national levels; and we shall stand up for traditional progressive values as formulated by such pioneers as Theodore and Franklin Delano Roosevelt--and continued by such contemporaries as Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio.

This will not be easy, and it will take years of hard work and dedication. But I believe we can do this. And I believe that we can get results quicker than the Greens and perhaps take back our country from the neoconservative menace that is systematically destroying it.

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