They recognize that AA, for
instance, is tailor - made to meet the stresses and strains
of alcoholism, and they accept the fact that
alcoholism, as Harry Emerson Fosdick has put it, is like a stained - glass window in that it can best be seen and understood from the inside.
Progressivism, a populist reform movement in the early twentieth century, espoused by Presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and grounded in Protestant moralism, which sought to make government both more responsive to the plight
of the people, for
instance using Constitutional amendments to deal with social problems like
alcoholism and using government force to quash monopolies, and at the same time more representative
of the will
of the electorate, for
instance instituting more democracy like the direct election
of Senators and ending the corruption
of Machine politics in the cities.