What happened to Southern progressives?

Huey Long was a bombastic populist who ran a self-serving political machine in one of the most irrelevant backwater states in the entire US. Not exactly a model for progressivism

>>2866796

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_Our_Wealth

Example of one of Long's policies:

1. No person would be allowed to accumulate a personal net worth of more than 300 times the average family fortune, which would limit personal assets to between $5 million and $8 million. A graduated capital levy tax would be assessed on all persons with a net worth exceeding $1 million.

2.Annual incomes would be limited to $1 million and inheritances would be capped at $5.1 million.

3. very family was to be furnished with a homestead allowance of not less than one-third the average family wealth of the country. Every family was to be guaranteed an annual family income of at least $2,000 to $2,500, or not less than one-third of the average annual family income in the United States. Yearly income, however, cannot exceed more than 300 times the size of the average family income.

4.An old-age pension would be made available for all persons over 60.

5.To balance agricultural production, the government would preserve/store surplus goods, abolishing the practice of destroying surplus food and other necessities due to lack of purchasing power.

6. Veterans would be paid what they were owed (a pension and healthcare benefits).

7. Free education and training for all students to have equal opportunities in all schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions for training in the professions and vocations of life.

8. The raising of revenue and taxes for the support of this program was to come from the reduction of swollen fortunes from the top, as well as for the support of public works to give employment whenever there may be any slackening necessary in private enterprise.

Because the system promotes individuals who don't give a shit and can get away with doing whatever the fuck they want.

>>2866796
>Muh gun control
>Muh immigrants competing with us for jobs
>Muh religious objection to abortion
>Muh military spending

>>2866801
Long, without a college or even a high school education, embarked down that dangerous road of populism by promising that which did not belong to him to illiterate and starving Louisiana hicks. In the end, he got popped for it. This will teach those filthy proles their place.

>>2866808

He went to and graduated law school in only a year and was remarked to be a very intelligent student by his teachers.

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>>2866801
>1. No person would be allowed to accumulate a personal net worth of more than 300 times the average family fortune, which would limit personal assets to between $5 million and $8 million. A graduated capital levy tax would be assessed on all persons with a net worth exceeding $1 million.
thats a good idea, people still can earn more if they work hard, but nobody can become wealthy enough to be able to fuck over the rest of the country.
shame distributism never took off and that they became replaced by spineless socdems

>>2866890
>thats a good idea

No it's not.

>>2866796
Because the New Left infiltrated "progressive" politics and Southerners hate them.

>>2866922
You are so right, its a good thing 10 people own like 40% of all the money:^)