Posted on 08/06/2014 4:07:49 AM PDT by markomalley
In recent years, Liberal Democrats have adopted the name Progressives. Is the name appropriate? Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines progressive as moving forward or onward, happening or developing gradually over a period of time, or characterized by progression. If Liberals are indeed progressives, how is it that they deploy pre-Civil Rights era rhetoric to combat any Republican opposition to Democrat initiatives? The same goes for Republican initiatives that Democrats oppose.
Liberals, and their media allies instantly compare voter ID laws to poll taxes and literacy test that were outlawed in the 1965 Voters Rights Act. However, neither will acknowledge that it is regressive to claim that black Americans in 2014 (post-Civil Rights Act) are unable to secure something as simple as a photo ID. In addition, how can Liberal females call themselves progressives if they cannot afford their own birth control? How is that progress? Yet, Democrats accuse Republicans of wanting to take the country back to the 1950s.
Leftist Geraldo Rivera compared The Drudge Report's headlines about the threat of diseases that could possibly be brought over with the influx of illegals crossing our borders to what he calls "fear mongering" that happened when the Irish, Chinese, and Jewish immigrants came to America in the 19th Century. Although women can obtain a safe abortion from a number of clinics throughout the U.S., Nancy Pelosi and other Liberal women claim that any cut in funding would force women back to back alley abortions with coat hangers.
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The only name for Progressives is LEFTISTS.
They want to be called progs
They want to control the language.
Don’t give in. LEFTISTS THEY ARE and LEFTISTS THEY WILL BE!
The old joke about the ny times, what’s black and white and red all over?
That can also be used for this dictator in the white house.
Pinko commie fags is always a classic.
LoL
No not really.
Leftist is a smarmy word but not objectionable. Cover them with smarm.
Traitorous Bast**ds is what they really are.
You're right, it should be just "Flipping Idiot Liberal Dumbasses".
When will they change it?
They are islmists or islamist facilitators. And they have a lot of RINO support.
Progressing towards full Marxism.
Progressivism is an inflated assertion of imagined superiority.
“I prefer ‘Regressives’.”
Maybe ‘scu&bags’ might be more appropriate.
(forgive the expression)
IMHO
There is nothing progressive about being a Luddite and wanting to return to the stone age.
It beats as much relationship to the 250 year old tradition of Western liberal democracy as "Peoples Democratic Republic" has top any such entity.
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