I’ll need to spend more time than I have at the moment if to give this a proper answer but I’ll keep this one brief. 

Yes, the government is corrupt. Yes, both major political parties were captured by corporations and banks long ago. It hurts to see so many people fail to understand this.

You can be a progressive idealist and still completely disagree with mainstream politics. 

On the topic of science, there is more than enough consensus that global warming is real, and denial of the data is as easy to disprove as flat earthism.

Even Max Keiser agrees with this one, and he’s not exactly in the progressive camp.