The neighborhood association held annual potluck get-togethers at the pool area in an effort for neighbors to get to know each other better.
I overheard a lady who lived two doors down from us tell someone she was talking to, "I am not a liberal. I am a progressive."
I couldn't help but laugh out loud, thinking how stupid this woman must be not to see that she was telling these people she was mentally backward.
Regressivism is an apt description.
You should have told her to move BACK to where she came from (probably California), and to take her idiotic political ideals with her !