Progressive socialists think a large centralized government that controls everything from health care, education and private sector businesses is a good thing. Of course, all any thinking person has to do is look around the world and see exactly what progressive socialism has accomplished.
The latest example is Venezuela. Here, just four years ago, was one of the largest and most stable economies in the world. Today, it is reported 70 percent of the people live in poverty, schools fail, health care has collapsed. They are disarming the citizens and the list of negatives goes on. Can't happen here you say? Look at what has happened here in the last eight years.
More unemployed, more on food stamps, more on public assistance, health care that is becoming unaffordable, a plan to rip the heart out of self-reliance and success through over-taxation and the list goes on. The American public should be very careful about what it wishes for. And, if they do not think Hillary Clinton is a progressive, just look up what she was doing in 1990 ("We can't afford a President Clinton," Aug. 18). Hint: She was trying to nationalize education.
William M. Libercci, Sr., Nottingham