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When 2004 Democrat presidential nominee [[John Kerry]]'s home state of Massachusetts' became the first state to legalize [[same-sex marriage]], the issue split Democrats. Ballot initiatives appeared in 11 states that brought citizens to the polls in large numbers; all 11 initiatives passed. [[Proposition 8]] in [[California]] won by a wide popular vote, but California Attorney General [[Kamala Harris]] bowed to [[LGBT]] groups and refused to defend the citizen referendum in court. These debates over social policy were reflected in the 2005 campaign for Chairman of the [[Democratic National Committee]], which [[Howard Dean]] won. As a progressive, Dean was the first to shepherd civil unions through the [[Vermont]] legislature.
When 2004 Democrat presidential nominee [[John Kerry]]'s home state of Massachusetts' became the first state to legalize [[same-sex marriage]], the issue split Democrats. Ballot initiatives appeared in 11 states that brought citizens to the polls in large numbers; all 11 initiatives passed. [[Proposition 8]] in [[California]] won by a wide popular vote, but California Attorney General [[Kamala Harris]] bowed to [[LGBT]] groups and refused to defend the citizen referendum in court. These debates over social policy were reflected in the 2005 campaign for Chairman of the [[Democratic National Committee]], which [[Howard Dean]] won. As a progressive, Dean was the first to shepherd civil unions through the [[Vermont]] legislature.
Disillusion with two seemingly endless wars, coupled with a financial crisis caused by decades of government intervention in the [[mortgage]] market and manipulation of interest rates, along with a declining middle class due to [[globalization]] and jobs loss as workers saw the shipped overseas, led to a resurgence of progressivism. 20 years after the fall of the [[Berlin Wall]], Socialists finally captured the [[White House]].
Disillusion with two seemingly endless wars, coupled with a financial crisis caused by decades of government intervention in the [[mortgage]] market and manipulation of interest rates, along with a declining middle class due to [[globalization]] and jobs loss as workers saw their jobs shipped overseas, led to a resurgence of progressivism. 20 years after the fall of the [[Berlin Wall]], Socialists finally captured the [[White House]].
====Progressive police state====
====Progressive police state====