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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.
By Michael Lind

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  • Thursday, November 20, 2008 08:48 PM

    I'd love to be called a Liberal

    and I have always been one.

    Gilbert & Sullivan said it best: "Every girl and every boy who's born into the world alive is either a little Liberal or else a little con-ser-va-tive." A "progressive" is a Liberal whatever he/she calls him/herself. And being a Liberal is a proud thing, a great thing, an American thing! And being called a Liberal is a compliment.

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