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In reply to the discussion: What is the difference between the terms "liberal" and "progressive" in American politics? [View all]1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)50. Funny, you mention Dr. King's "transformation" into a "real" threat ...
I wrote a paper about just that while in undergrad. In the paper I, also, connected Robert Kennedy and, believe it or not, Jesse Jackson's first Presidential run versus his second campaign. The main thesis was, as you mention, integration was not a threat to the PTB's agenda; but when societal figures begin to connect the socio-economic dots, they meet up with a bullet to the brain, or some tragic auto accident. Bottom-line ... racism and all the other "isms" are merely a symptom of the larger disease that plagues society.
How I wish we had thumb-drives back when I was in college, rather than carbon-copies (that no one thought about until years after the paper had been submitted and forgotten.)
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What is the difference between the terms "liberal" and "progressive" in American politics? [View all]
UnrepentantLiberal
Dec 2012
OP
The term Progressive goes back to the turn of the 20th Century. It denoted substantial reform
leveymg
Dec 2012
#52
Actually, Liberal is actually a terribly non descriptive term. It means UNREGULATED.
KittyWampus
Dec 2012
#58
Funny, you mention Dr. King's "transformation" into a "real" threat ...
1StrongBlackMan
Dec 2012
#50
I've never thought of liberal philosophy as far as how it relates to governing this country.
UnrepentantLiberal
Dec 2012
#12
Amazing, you offer the actual definition, and instantly folks come to say 'I don't like the real one
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2012
#20
I actually was not referring to you, so I guess your leap is also amazing.
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2012
#37
That's simply incorrect. Downthread, someone has the historical definition of "liberal":
Romulox
Dec 2012
#41
LOL. You used a term incorrectly, and then proceeded to lecture others ad nauseum.
Romulox
Dec 2012
#55
A "laissez-faire economic policy" is the economics of the hard right, for a start.
Romulox
Dec 2012
#60
What's the difference, then, between a "Progressive" and a "Revolutionary"? Not
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#42
I've noted that Thom Hartmann seems to use the term "progressive" more often. n/t
NRaleighLiberal
Dec 2012
#22
Originally, "progressives" were Republicans and northern Democrats around 1900
Recursion
Dec 2012
#40
Liberal simply means progressive & isn't specific. In Europe, Neo-Liberal means unregulated markets.
KittyWampus
Dec 2012
#59