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Friday, November 21, 2008 12:00 AM

Is it OK to be liberal again, instead of progressive?

Come out of the closet, liberals. Stop using the fashionable euphemism "progressive" and relaunch the old, tarnished L-word.

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  • Friday, November 21, 2008 05:16 AM

    @ jc miller and jkk (somebody else too, i forget)...

    not normally a 'me tooer' or 'attaboy/grrl' poster, but...

    jc miller, what an incredible distillation of a terrific point, just wonderfully, succinctly put... magnificent, thank you...

    jkk (and some others) made numerous excellent points which agree with my view, therefore they must be brilliant *AND* beautiful, as well as smell irresistable ! ! !

    in short, the dem'rats not only ALLOWED the demonization of 'liberal' to happen over time, they PARTICIPATED in it: *besides* NOT really being 'liberal'/'progressive' in very many meaningful ways, they RAN AWAY FROM those labels, thus SHOWING they thought these words (if not positions) shameful and suspect...

    art guerrilla

    aka ann archy

    eof

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