Progressivism

 Hypocrisy is rampant.

   Whatever happened to the sense of moral responsibility to help the needy that marked so many and led to the Progressive Party, led by Theodore Roosevelt?
   It's ironic that the Republican Party, with its huge base of so-called evangelicals, has come so far from those days and now cares so little about social welfare.
   Or maybe it's just the knee-jerk political reactionism that requires opponents to campaign against something that they themselves may have proposed in the past but now object to because someone else might get a small amount of credit for putting the program in place. Remember Mitt Romney's assault on the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) set up by Democrats, even though the format was identical to the one arranged by Republican Romney as governor of Massachusetts?
   Perhaps it's time for those who advocate social welfare to label themselves Progressives rather than Socialists. Then again, the Progressive Party was an offshoot of the Republican Party in the early 20th Century, and Democrats today are not likely to use a label that was once applied to renegade Republicans.