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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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  • Thursday, November 20, 2008 08:18 PM

    What does it Mean?

    This trap that the Right has set here in America is so much nonsense. What should labels matter? Frankly, there's something inherently evil about denigrating what someone who believes in civil liberties and social justice for all, call themselves.

    I would like to think that most Americans believe in the Constitution not simply because of some misguided Patriotic notion, but because they truly value the protections it enumerates.

    If that's the case, then aren't they "liberals" as well? Yes, Sarah Palin, Michael Medved, Anne Coulter, et. al. I am a Liberal.

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