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• Author: Kliese, Don
• Position: Letter to the Editor

The editorials contained in recent issues of The Progressive are but a microcosm of why the liberal-left movement in this nation is morally dead.

First, in the April issue, the editors savage Ralph Nader, an individual who has tirelessly worked his entire life for a more humane, just, and compassionate society (Comment, "Nader's Wrong Turn"). Nader's sin in The Progressive's eye? To not get behind the current minority party of the military/industrial/academic complex, i.e., the Democrats.

Then, in the Comment of the May issue ("Unheeded Warnings"), The Progressive chooses to fawn over "counterterrorism czar" Richard A. Clarke, an...