# As a Progressive, I am throwing in the towel **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 6, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-a-progressive-i-am-throwing-in-the-towel/924912 "2020-11-06T18:31:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 31
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-a-progressive-i-am-throwing-in-the-towel/924912/31 "2020-11-25T13:49:24Z")
> [@Lamoral](#): > > PEOPLE WILL BUY ANYTHING if it’s marketed with sufficient salesmanship. They’ll buy fucking fidget spinners and pet rocks. People will run their bank accounts into the red keeping up with trends for no other reason than that they were effectively sold on them by good marketing. There is no reason and I mean NO reason why this same concept does not apply to political goals. Except that, in a way, everything you listed above benefits ME (not ‘them’). Most of the policies that Progressives favor have a greater propensity to benefit THEM or US. When we think of that ‘[continuum of care](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-constructive-effective-disagreement-thread/925194/66)’ concept, you’re dealing with wildly divergent interests. If you even implied that getting clean drinking water for the people of Flint, Michigan meant you couldn’t buy your fidget spinner, they’d almost surely tell you to go pound sand. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-a-progressive-i-am-throwing-in-the-towel/924912)._