The Progressive Path Forward

A 12-State Strategy

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By now leading progressives are starting to realize that they face some severe structural impediments if they are serious about getting real progress in the United States.

What do I mean by real progress?

Let’s just list a few common, reasonable goals.

• LGBTQ rights
• Immigration reform
• Protection for the environment
• Prison reform
• Policing and judicial equity for minorities
• Better gun legislation
• Abortion rights
• Increasing income and wealth equity

For most people who call themselves progressives, I think that the list above would be accepted without much fuss. We all want these things.

But how do we get them?

Here we run into a population distribution problem.

Modern progressives are mostly found in our large urban centers, while conservatives tend to be clustered in our more rural areas.

Unfortunately for progressives, our urban population is increasingly becoming concentrated in only a few parts of the country.