[RonF]

Oh, I'll grant you that calling them "liberals" perverts the historical use of that term. But your reference to the philosophical roots of the term "progressive" isn't what comes to mind to the public when that term is used - and I daresay it doesn't come to mind to 90% of the people who use the term to describe themselves.

[newguy357]

I agree with you for the most part--my only point is that the mistake is not in calling those on the left "progressives" but rather in not asking them where it is they are trying to progress to. In the long run I think we'll do better for the country by educating people about the vicious history of the word "progressive" than we will by labeling the left as something else. I want to hang the label of progressive around their necks, complete with its horrifying history (e.g., eugenics as one example). I want them to have to answer for it. Calling them something else gives them an out.