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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 09:57 AM
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NeoProgressives or Neo-Liberals what does that term mean to you?
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Edited on Tue Jan-25-05 10:00 AM by xultar
I've been watching DU for the past month. I was and I am STILL not happy about what I see about the incivility that has grown and festered. This has nothing to do with the Mods. This has everything to do with how we relate to one another.

I've seen the terms NeoProgressives and NeoLiberals at other (progressive and Liberal)message boards and blogs. I've even seen here an attempt to coin a NeoDemocrat term.

I'd like you to tell me what the term NeoProgressive or NeoLiberal means to you. It appears that every one thinks that the Term Neo when applied to any term is NEGATIVE when all it really means is new and different.

Before you answer, consider that everything in our world has a direct mirror image. That is what makes the world go round. If you look at the very structure of our universe we have matter and anti-matter so, it stands to reason that where NeoCons are concerned there is a direct mirror image and it could very well be the NeoProgressive. Two sides of the same coin fighting each other and everyone else with equal contempt, anger, and frustration.

Just something to think about while you're beating each other over the head.
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  -NeoProgressives or Neo-Liberals what does that term mean to you? xultar  Jan-25-05 09:57 AM   #0 
  - Neodemocrats = DLC = Paleorepublicans  Walt Starr   Jan-25-05 09:59 AM   #1 
  - Soon to become Neoimperialists  kitkat65   Jan-25-05 10:02 AM   #4 
  - Unfortunately, NeoLiberal Has Its Own Meaning,  ribofunk   Jan-25-05 09:59 AM   #2 
  - I require detail on the free trade reference.  xultar   Jan-25-05 10:04 AM   #6 
     - Check out Lisa Duggan's the Twilight of Equality.  AP   Jan-25-05 10:05 AM   #8 
     - Thank you very much AP. I will give it a read. I'm always interested  xultar   Jan-25-05 10:48 AM   #24 
     - There's a Lot of History There  ribofunk   Jan-25-05 10:33 AM   #21 
     - WOW! Thanks soooo much for the info. This is one thing I love about  xultar   Jan-25-05 10:51 AM   #25 
     - Xultar, Liberal Means Unregulated. Outside The US, Liberalism Refers  cryingshame   Jan-26-05 08:25 PM   #28 
  - While I am sure you would prefer we all salute and fall into formation  Cheswick2.0   Jan-25-05 10:01 AM   #3 
  - Nope frankly I don't really care what you do. n/t  xultar   Jan-25-05 10:08 AM   #12 
  - it's actually kind of non-liberal to stick to a label so carefully  sui generis   Jan-25-05 10:02 AM   #5 
  - But we seem to be so quick to apply it to others..NeoDem...  xultar   Jan-25-05 10:06 AM   #9 
  - well, the other side is a very fixed set of narrow values  sui generis   Jan-25-05 10:30 AM   #19 
  - Neoliberalism is an attitude about global capitalism. It means you  AP   Jan-25-05 10:04 AM   #7 
  - it means corporatists i.e. fascists  GreenArrow   Jan-25-05 10:07 AM   #10 
  - It means that people  izzybeans   Jan-25-05 10:08 AM   #11 
  - agreed -  sui generis   Jan-25-05 10:31 AM   #20 
     - I like your user name-  izzybeans   Jan-26-05 07:33 PM   #26 
  - The problem here is that there are a few DLCers who create bait threads  Robbien   Jan-25-05 10:11 AM   #13 
  - No they are not. I've been watching most of the thresd created are  xultar   Jan-25-05 10:14 AM   #15 
  - We must see threads at differently, but in either case you are right  Robbien   Jan-25-05 10:24 AM   #18 
     - Does the DLC really matter in the scheme of things. WE appear to  xultar   Jan-25-05 10:45 AM   #23 
  - Is This Sarcasm? Are You Serious? DLC'ers Create Bait Threads?  cryingshame   Jan-26-05 08:28 PM   #29 
     - Technically they hijack more threads than they create.  AntiCoup2K4   Jan-26-05 11:26 PM   #34 
  - Neo isn't negative at all  Wiley50   Jan-25-05 10:14 AM   #14 
  - That's what I'm trying to say. Yet everyone seems to think it is negative  xultar   Jan-25-05 10:15 AM   #16 
  - Neoconservatism and neoliberalism are the military and economic arms...  IrateCitizen   Jan-25-05 10:16 AM   #17 
  - I'm more or less in agreement with IC  Lydia Leftcoast   Jan-25-05 10:39 AM   #22 
  - Nothing. It's another bullshit unwarranted generalization. nt  bemildred   Jan-26-05 08:15 PM   #27 
  - Nothing. They are "make-up" words which have no substance.  Just Me   Jan-26-05 08:37 PM   #30 
  - If you are so concerned about the unity of the "one" human race...  AntiCoup2K4   Jan-26-05 11:33 PM   #35 
  - "Neoprogressive" is my coinage  StopThePendulum   Jan-26-05 10:25 PM   #31 
  - Neoliberalism: origins, theory, definition  Tinoire   Jan-26-05 11:05 PM   #32 
  - The prefix "neo" has come to mean basically "counterfeit"  AntiCoup2K4   Jan-26-05 11:24 PM   #33 
 

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