The only thing "progressive" in the revolutionary-communist left's plans for the United States is their aim to 'progressively' take it down and destroy it. This is why I always put the word "progressive" in quotes when referring to them and their agenda. I refuse to concede it to them as meaning something positive. It's standard feel-good commie lingo.
“It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming ‘community organizer,’ had his political coming out party in 1995.
Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World - where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working ‘only to educate’ - both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers.”
Article: The Company He Keeps: Meet Obama’s circle:
The same old America-hating Left
Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review Online, April 11, 2008
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“As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who [Bernardine] Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam.
Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with Vietnamese communists in Toronto. He later recalled being so moved by the gesture that he ‘left the room to cry.’
—American Thinker, September 16, 2008
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“They’re certainly friendly” -quote from ‘Obama’s chief strategist (and reigning expert on Chicago’s political tribes), David Axelrod,’ on the Bill Ayers, Obama relationship.
—Politico
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From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), an organization at the center of what is going on right now.
REVOLUTION: Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
Interview with Bill Ayers, Revolution #63, October 1, 2006:
On Progressive Education...”