How do progressives define themselves and how do cons. define progressive?

Question

I dont want to be beat up just give an honest answer. Answers from both sides are welcome, just be honest. Passion is ok from both sides.

Answer 1

To give some background, liberalism/progressive has socialistic and Marxism roots. The Democratic party has been influenced significantly by liberal thought including secular progressives and has changed the party and made it more left leaning. George P. Lakoff from the University of California, Berkeley is one of the fathers of secular progressives and the ACLU and is a major funding and enforcement body that influences liberal and secular progressive thought in the US.

Liberals and secularist progressives believe in the following:
Christians are obstacles to an "enlightened" society
Drugs should be legalized
Homosexual marriage is equal to marriage between a man and a woman
Abortion is good for society and is not the killing of a child
Euthanasia is also good for society and not killing an adult
America is the root of evil in the world
We should appease our enemies
Countries and borders are not relevant, people should be allowed into the US without legal process. There should be open borders.
Government programs with high taxation are good for society


Liberals want to change America by weakening the country as a nation and significantly destroying the social fabric that has been been built over 200 years of our existence. This is a cultural war, the stakes are high, but I believe in America and a sense of morality will somehow prevail in the end.

Answer 2

"Charles" obviously has some bias against liberals, since he lied about (almost) everything.

I believe as a moderate liberal, that everybody should have the same rights, and that, in MOST cases (not all), the laws shouldn't be "tweaked" for some groups, while others have it a different way. I also believed that NOT every far out there idea (like legalizing all drugs) is worth considering.

As far as conservatives go, I'm glad they are around to balance out the political spectrum. If there were only one big party (Democrats a large party, Republicans small, or vise-versa) that can lead to too much power by one group, which can turn us into a fascist nation. However, I believe that some of them can be too stubborn, and at times they should be the ones with the donkey logo (if you get my drift).

I think sometimes, on both sides, the generalizations can come on thick, where Republicans assume that Democrats hate America & want to rob from the rich (WAY, WAY off) and that Republicans are war-mongering thieves and want to snatch up every penny they can for their rich buddies (also WAY, WAY off).

Answer 3

I define progressive as the early 21st century term in which to hide "global socialism." Today's progressive is yesterday's bleeding heart liberal. The progressive is the aging hippe still convincing his/herself that the ideals of the 60s are still new, radical, or relevant today.
In keeping with the Orwellian tradition on which it is based, liberalism had to be renamed progressivism because many of us generation x-ers understand liberalism to be anywhere from laughable to downright dangerous to the US. History will hopefully show that to also have been a failure Time will tell.

Answer 4

Communists have taken the "Progressive Label" just to fool people.
(Just like all Liberal Politicians call themselves: "Moderates".)