“Progressive” became a dirty word. So they decided to call themselves “Liberal”, and now that is a dirty word. So now they’re “Progressive” again.
Because the reputation of “left” has been ruined by left wingers, they have to seek a new one.
The term “Democrat” has disappeared from campaign advertising here in Indiana.
You might think on election day there would be no Dems on the ballot....
Since the MSM seems to think Democrats are doing so well (in the polls) it’s interesting to me that the term is invisible in adverts.
They are hiding.
Yeah this Liberal likes to be called a Progressive...
“I think the old standby definitions of who votes for which party have been blown away in this campaign. I think people recognize that I’m not a partisan Republican—that I’m someone who is moderate, and that my views are progressive.”
-Mitt Romney (2002)
Progressives because they are for progress and you aren’t!
Progressives because they are for progress and you aren’t!
I never call them liberals. If you are a classic liberal you are in American terms a constitutionalist or what we usually call a conservative. The left stole the term and befouled it.
So I call them Dems, or leftists, or socialists, or fascists, or communists, or marxists, according to the context and according to whatever it is they are up to this time. But liberals, never.
The term ‘Progressive’ was co-opted by the Democrats waaay back around the 1920s or so from the Bolsheviks in Russia. Around the time of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the Bolsheviks quickly discovered that the word ‘communist’ had VERY negative connotations. As a result, they came up with the word ‘Progressive’ to hide their communist agenda.
FDR was a closet socialist who did everything in his power to bring socialism to America. He knew that Americans of the day would NEVER accept terms such as ‘socialism’ and ‘liberalism’, so he used ‘progressive’ to describe his administration.
After that, ‘Progressive’ has been a term that cloaks the true agenda of the Dems. Ironically, I saw a bumper sticker recently that read “No Tea for me, I prefer Progress”.
So, still today, ‘Progressive” is used to cloak the communist agenda of the Democrat Party.