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To: Joe Boucher
PROGRESSIVE?

OHHHH, you mean LIBERAL.

Where did all this "progressive" stuff come from?

I hear Beck and O'Reilly using that term all the time.

I believe that liberals changed their name to progressives to hide the fact that they are liberals and to distance themselves from a label they know is toxic.

So why do Beck and O'Reilly and some posters to these threads go along with this?

57 posted on 02/03/2010 8:32:30 AM PST by JohnG45
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To: JohnG45

[I believe that liberals changed their name to progressives to hide the fact that they are liberals and to distance themselves from a label they know is toxic.]

Liberals were progressives before they were liberals (Woodrow Wilson ring a bell). They changed their name to “liberal” when people figured out what progressive meant. Now they want to be progressives again, which yes is the same thing as liberal. I guess to me, the term progressive is just as insulting as liberal.


81 posted on 02/03/2010 8:57:59 AM PST by KansasGirl
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