In your opinion, What is the difference between Liberals and Progressives? n/t.

[MadBadger]

[ananda]

1. Liberals are proud of being liberal and NOT ashamed or intimidated.

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[Taverner]

4. Exactly!

I think a lot of people say "Progressive" because they still think Liberal is a dirty word

I say LIBERAL and I AM PROUD TO BE SUCH!

[endarkenment]

12. Or - liberals are allergic to the word 'socialism'

progressives, not so much.

[Eric J in MN]

2. For me...

...the word "liberal" has connotations of civil liberties, hoping the Supreme Court rules a certain way.

The word "progressive" has connotations of government reforms to fight corruption (civil service exams, campaign finance reform.)

[Taverner]

3. Liberals are a specific political distinction

Pro labor, pro worker, Socially Democratic.

Progressive can mean whatever you want it to, however. Teddy Roosevelt (deep down, more Social-Libertarian than anything) was a Progressive, as was Henry Wallace (Social Democrat, if anything.)

I do not like the term progressive, because it implies that we are assured that what we are doing is progress. Maybe it is, but this assumption sends of shades of huberis.

I am a LIBERAL dammit!

[kctim]

5. Difference between liberal and Democrat would be a good one

[datasuspect]

6. THE DIFFERANCE BETWEEN LIEBERALS AND PROGRESIVS

IS THEY BOTH LIKE STALIN!!!!!111111

[endarkenment]

11. and INCOMPENT too!

[datasuspect]

13. THEY ARE FROM COMUNISTS

AND READ RICHARD MARX WHILE KILLING BABIES

[billyoc]

7. Nah.

[MadBadger]

8. Thanks n/t

[Selatius]

9. The world "liberal" used to refer to people who believed in laissez-faire economic policies.

Prior to FDR, the people who favored more regulations in the markets after seeing the effects of unregulated capitalism were labeled as progressives. The terms became mixed together when FDR began attempts to reach across the aisle and thus appropriated the term "liberal" from the Republicans who favored no regulation or government intervention to deal with the Great Depression. For example, the Liberal Party in Australia is considered the more conservative party there compared to the Democrats or the Labor Party.

[MadBadger]

10. So using the modern view of the word "liberal", do you see them as the same as progressives?

[H2O Man]

14. In my opinion,

and based upon coming from a family that has had both liberals and progressives for many generations, the difference is this: liberals tend to want to fine-tune the system to address the problems they see, while progressives want to institute a new system.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

15. as long it is one ot the other it's OK