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Author: Time is ripe for change
Progressive strategist Mike Lux
visits Triangle
by Matt Comer . Q-Notes staff
Mike Lux says he’s been a progressive since
childhood.
“What
shaped me the
most was that
my parents
taught me that,
taking care of
folks who did
n’t have all the
advantages in
the word was
the right thing
to do, for
moral reasons,
for religious
reasons,” he
told Q-Notes in “Equality has always been
an interview of American debate,” says
via phone author Mike Lux.
from Washington, D.C.
Lux, co-founder and president of
the D.C. firm Progressive Strategies, is
the author of “The Progressive
Revolution: How the best in America
came to be.” He’s been working full
time in progressive political circles
for nearly 30 years, working for Bill
Clinton, AFL-CIO, People for the
American Way and Barack Obama.
He visited Raleigh and Durham
on May 13 and 14, speaking at a N.C.
Policy Watch luncheon, signing books
at Durham’s Regulator Bookshop and
attending Durham’s popular Drinking
Liberally social and political group.
“The Progressive Revolution” corrects con
servative myths about American progress and
history. Lux outlines arguments for progres-
sivism and makes the case that the time is
ripe for “another Big Change Movement.”
“Conservatives love to wrap themselves in
the flag and in tradition,” Lux told Q-Notes.
“They like to argue that they seek the same
thing as the Founding Fathers. You hear a lot
of talk about having Jeffersonian ideals or that
Lincoln was a conservative. The fact is, when
you really look at the arguments and you go
back and study the flow of debate back and
forth you realize that conservatives have
at tbe beart
“Progressive”
always made certain arguments and progres
sives have always made certain arguments.”
Lux says conservatives believe in authority,
tradition and states’ rights. Those arguments
have been used to defend slavery and other
social ills. Arguments against the minimum
wage and Social Security during
the New Deal are some of the
same arguments heard in
today’s dismal economic cli
mate.
“When you look at the argu
ments through history, it is real
ly clear which side progressives
have always been on and what
side conservatives have always
been on,” Lux said.
While most Americans only
saw the effects of a movement
for “big change” in the
November election of Barack
Obama, Lux says it has been
building for a while. Friends
have chided Lux, calling his “big
change” argument the
“Draino Theory of
American Politics.”
“Change sometimes
gets put on hold for
quite a while, because
conservative politicians
come to dominate the
scene for a while,” he
said. “Change comes in
big rushes. The most
important changes in
American history hap
pen in a very few, short
periods of time. When
someone finally comes
in ready to do some
thing about it, movements are strong enough
to make things happen.”
Lux says LGBT people have a definitive place
in American society. History, he says, proves
we’ll eventually move in the right direction.
“Equality has always been at the heart of
the American political debate. Look at the
other big periods of change in American his
tory, from the 1860s to the early 1900s, 1950s
and 1960s.”
Lux is convinced that the fight for LGBT
equality is going to be one of the “leading edge
indicators” of political change. “It will drive a
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