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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.
By Michael Lind

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  • Friday, November 21, 2008 06:27 AM

    chris49068

    So your reality begins and ends with Google and Wikipedia. That's sad.

    the average person would most likely never label Roosevelt as a liberal or King. If they think of them as anything they would think of them as Progressives

    That's simply wrong.

    Liberal implies over-doing it

    No, Liberal, in the way you are trying to use it, implies generosity. The way you're trying to shoehorn it into some phrases isn't a common usage.

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