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'Progressives' Should Start Calling Themselves 'Liberals' Again
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Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Jul 12, 2010 04:21pm |
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News Date | Monday, July 12, 2010 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | At some point in the last 30 years, left-of-center organizations eschewed the term "liberal" for the fancier-sounding "progressive," after the right wing had somehow turned "liberal" into a pejorative. Unfortunately for liberals, no one knows what the **** "progressive" means.
According to a new USA Today/Gallup poll, a full 54% of "national adults" are unsure if the word "progressive" describes their own political views, while only 12% think it does. Even worse, only 26% of self-described "liberals" think "progressive" describes their views, while 57% of them are unsure. This is not a great branding effort, when liberals don't know that they're supposed to love a synonym that the organized and funded left is using to describe them. |
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