Fun merch for the liberal in you
About
I'm David Roddis, the eminence grise behind this site, The Future Progressive. I code the online store, design the designs, copywrite the copy, make the Earl Grey tea and cut the crusts off the cucumber finger sandwiches.
Please buy my merch so I can be successful and lie around all day doing nothing.
This merch site grew out of a desire to make my blog (at slowpainful.com, check it out, the link is up there, somewhere) more physical, more real; to give it legs, so to speak, so it could walk forth in the community and multiply.
The slogans and quotes you see on the merchandise draw heavily on my blog, which means they reflect my weird humor, also my eclectic and oddball beliefs and interests. You see, I'm one of the last liberals standing and I'm unabashedly proud of it.
You'll learn pretty soon that my interests are the universal liberal solutions of justice, equity, human and civil rights, social democracy, self-determination..
Which means I'm also deeply concerned with the problems of climate catastrophe, queerphobia, autocracy, capitalism run amok, racism, income inequity, homelessness.
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Yet, somehow, I still manage to write humor, just about, and I still laugh uproariously at almost everything. ​​
It’s how I register despair.
All the best,
