[Consort]

What do they want us to call them? Liberals, Progressives Socialists, Democrats, Leftists, etc...are all pejoratives.

[MrB]

Liberals, Progressives Socialists, Democrats, Leftists, etc...are all pejoratives

Nah, most don't start out being perjoratives. But the people who take on those labels make them into perjoratives.

If you put the label "Roses" on a can of crap long enough, the word "Roses" becomes a synonym for "can of crap".