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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 04:40 AM

    Liberal didn't used to be a dirty word.

    Once upon a time, it described humanists, people who engaged in critical inquiry.

    Now libralz & pwogwessives demand conformity to a list of imperatives and an illusory notion that big gooberment can achieve wunnerful stuff, led of course by this new generation of libral-pwogwessives, which, of course will not make the same mistakes of the "Usefull Idiots" of the recent past.

    Nebermind that, like always, this silliness ignores human nature and is based on some klueless rubbish about collective possibilities which only breed corruption, cynicism, shortages, unemployment, and horrible abuse and violence over and over, again and again.

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