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Is this an age-related debate?
My political and social views and values have not shifted dramatically since I entered college, but the labels have varied. I have always been comfortable to describe myself as either "Liberal" or "Progressive". The word "liberal" to me always connoted "OPEN-minded", and I resented greatly that Ronald Reagan's frightened misunderstanding of either concept led to the "nasti-fication" of the term. On the other hand, I was born into the FDR era and grew up with admiration of the "progressive" movement as he played it out, and found that label perfectly descriptive uin connoting "moving forward" rather than "looking backward" (conservative).
Why generate argument about it? Why not seek to make BOTH labels "badges of pride"?
[Incidentally, as a retired professional psychologist, I am a lifetime member of APA & have always respected John Dewey -- but that does not mean I have agreed with everything he wrote or represented.]
