Quote:Yeah, but some treat progressives as if they're an inherently bad thing.  I'm sure that people sometimes use conservative in the same manner, but not to the same extent.   


Heck it's not as if 'liberal' and 'progressive' are even synonymous.  Progressives often just want change.  Things like taking money out of politics.  We don't think that money is speech, and we don't think corporations are people.  We think Citizens United was a sham.  Much like Sandra Day O'Connor and Rehnquist.  


Personally also feel that they got the Kelo case wrong too.  That was a decision by liberal justices.  (O'Connor and Rehnquist were dissenters on that one too.  Well O'Connor wasn't on the court at the time of Citizens United)

 

It's a false equivalency people on the right hear progressive or liberal they attach socialist to it, people on the left hear libertarian or conservative and they attach corporatist to it. Over coming THAT obstacle is the biggest challenge to any real change. It took me years to realize what I said before, progressives are not evil, liberals are not the enemy, it's authoritarians I oppose.

 

Now I still argue that leftist ideas lead to authoritarian regime's more often which is why I disagree with many of their policies but that doesn't make them the enemy. It makes them people I'm trying to convince that other ways are less likely to lead to authoritarian regime and achieve the same objective.

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