Since 2009, there has been a wave of regressive voting measures across the country.
New York suffers from notoriously regressive voting laws that often suppress turnout.
Muirfield golf club has lost the right to host the prestigious Open championship after taking the stunningly regressive step of voting against reversing its ban on female members.
Earlier this week, Mr. Mitterrand refused to allow the Prime Minister to enact the measure on working hours by administrative decree, saying it was socially regressive and must be voted on by Parliament.
Although Goldsmith has a reputation as a progressive Tory, he has consistently voted for regressive taxes (for the bedroom tax, against the mansion tax) because, he says, the overriding principle is positive – to help people back into work or free up more social housing.
A vote for Obama and the Democrats is a vote against that regressive platform and those "pro-life" policies that would let women die rather than allow them abortions.
(In fact, the results from the last two parts of Proposition 3.3 are very logical; e.g., the second part states that an existing majority of individuals in the upper part of the high income class will induce as a voting outcome the regressive tax system preferred by all the individuals with income in that subclass).
When progressive voters support so-called Republican moderates, they are in fact voting for Tom DeLay, Trent Lott and regressive economic policies; and against protecting the environment, civil liberties and civil rights, a woman's right to choose, and occupational safety.
Now, I have this political obstacle that we need to discuss, in part because the progressives, who far outnumber the regressives in this country, voted against him.
So why are so many Arabs voting for parties that seem politically regressive to Westerners?
