Partial list of progressive accomplishments over the past 100 years

Publicly regulated or owned transportation, sanitation and utilities systems, antitrust laws, increased fairness in taxation, expansion of the public education and juvenile justice systems, safer workplaces, workmens' compensation, oversight of the purity of water, medicines and foods.

Conservation of the national wilderness heritage against overdevelopment, honest bidding on any public mining, lumbering and ranching.

The eight-hour day, the minimum wage, the conservation of natural resources and the protection of our air, water, and land, women's rights and civil rights, free trade unions, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid,  and a civil service based on merit.