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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 05:00 AM

    priority # 327: New launch of the Korporate Money Party's Brand X

    (Brand Y still asking why ask why...)

    hee hee hee

    semi-seriously (that's as good as it gets folks), who cares ? ? ?

    ho ho ho

    is there some requirement that both labels have some objective criteria that we must all follow, chairman lind ? ? ?

    ha ha ha

    personally, i have preferred 'progressive' since before 'liberal' was successfully demonized (due in NO SMALL PART to the wimpy simpery of dem'rats/etc), for the very reason #w-h-a-t-e-v-e-r he cites as being a detriment: the root word progress...

    ak ak ak

    i don't think *most* people will do the mostly academic deconstructions, historical allusions, and conclusions lucky lindy hops to in order to now demonize 'progressive'...

    boo Boo BOO

    taken on its face, the term 'progress' would certainly be viewed by 99.99% of the nekkid apes as a 'good thing', *WHATEVER* their personal version/vison of 'progress' is...

    this that the other

    (just like, um, other intangibles like, um, i don't know, 'hope', and, um, like, 'change'...)

    believe believe still believe ?

    progressive, liberal, six of one, half dozen of the other...

    mox nix y'all

    besides, i'm eclectic, i sometimes share views of my reichwing brothers and sisters who have been much more LEGITIMATELY concerned for a LONG time over consitutional rights OF ALL SORTS (including posse comitatus) being threatened, abrogated, or simply signing-statemented out of existence...

    secret secret secret

    as drawn to charismatic authoritarians/big daddy figures as konservatives might be, theroretically, they are opposed to the imperial/executive presidency that has gone on unchecked by the other two branches (not to mention media complacency)...

    complicit compliant coopted

    you babbling babbits are behind the curve on the REAL gummint threats and debasing of constitional rights that has been going on for a long time with full dem'rat/rethug 'bipartisanship'...

    right reich richtig

    art guerrilla

    aka ann archy

    eof

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