OK, We’ll Call You ‘Progressives,’ but You’re Still the Same Old Liberals

North Star Writers Group ^ | June 25, 2007 | Matt Carrothres

[Paladin2]

I always thought progressives were communists.

[Red Badger]

Newspeak, old agenda........

[KarlInOhio]

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=progressive

9. Medicine/Medical. continuously increasing in extent or severity, as a disease.

I don't want them to have the term progressive. I also want to take back the term liberal because liberal refers to freedom and that is the last thing those people want. Use the terms socialist, communist or fascist because they are the ones which most closely match their ideology.

[Recon Dad]

extreme political left – ask that everyone stop referring to them as liberals

I complained about this trend last year. I especially do not like that Bill O’Reilly always refers to them as “progressives”.

I guess the stink is the same whatever the name.

[Little Ray]

Well.... Commies definitely think they’re Progressives...

[camle]

it is predominantly the left that constantly changes terms and names in order to keep ahead of people’s common sense.

colored/negro/black/african american
queer/gay/samesex/partner
borderjumper/illegalimmigrant/undocumentedworker
etc

[bcsco]

Liberal activists – the political left’s extreme political left – ask that everyone stop referring to them as liberals.

OK; "Commies" it is! Hey, glad to help!!!!

[MichiganCheese]

Democrat=Progressive=Liberal=Socialist=Communist

It’s all the same no matter what they call themselves. They could call themselves patriots but that doesn’t mean they are. All you have to do is look at their actions.

[P-40]

“Take Back America 2007.”

If you go to C-SPAN.org you can watch the whole thing. It is pretty funny. Most of it is just the general regressive stuff that progressives always talk about. Some of it is hilarious because they talk about 'advancing' programs that are well under way already thanks to this administration.

[Enduring Freedom]

progressives?

retards

[alarm rider]

I never use the word “Liberal”, in truth, they are leftists.

[giobruno]

“empowering people in the political and economic sphere”

A political theory as old as Plato that manipulates people with marginal influence (and, in most cases, rightly so, because they are crazy, violent, self-destructive, or otherwise incapable of governing themselves) to gain power for yourself by claiming to best represent their interests. Since such attempts to raise the worse to the best by appealing to the mob has for centuries been appropriately named, perhaps we could borrow from the past and call their new political moniker what it is: the Demagogues.

[skimbell]

You’re right. They are.

[dalight]

You are right. The “Progressives” are not your fathers liberals but Socialists, Communists and general crazies.

[adorno]

I don’t mind letting the “liberals” refer to themselves as “progressives”. That is, as long as they use it as the adjective that it is and not as a stand-alone term to describe something that they’re not. They’re not “progressive” in the true definition of the word. They are “progressively” worse for America. They are progressively intolerant of differing opinions. They are progressively worse for the economy. They are progressively worse for our freedoms. They are progressively bad for freedom of speech and the press and especially “talk radio”. They are progressively bad for our defense and our military personnel. They are progressively bad for our foreign policy. They are in general, progressively bad for America and the world.

[Bean Counter]

If it waddles like a duck...

[oh8eleven]

No, no, no ... I'm a Progressive ... trust me.

[andy58-in-nh]

"Progressive" is a catch-all term for collectivist and anti-individualist political movements. It means opposition to free markets and support for central government planning. It promotes the replacement of individual rights and responsibilities with collective obligations and duties. In the 20th century, this ideology killed, oh...about 100 million or so people, but only because it wasn't run by really smart people like Al Gore, John Edwards, and Hillary Clinton.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Let me fix that for you, Roger...

Roger Hickey says the word progressive “goes beyond the traditional concept of liberalism, which we also subscribe to, and it has an emphasis on empowering people the members of the People's National Worker Party in the political and economic sphere.”

Closer to truthiness, that.