Reply #56: Thank you -- Those are good points

[Time for change]

The Republicans and the corporate news media have made "liberal" into a bad word, and I'm afraid that liberals have been complicit in that by not objecting strongly enough. I don't believe it has served them well to find other words (such as "progressive") to define themselves, when IMHO they should be proudly defending their choice to be liberals. We can't hide from it by simply calling ourselves by another name. I believe we're playing right into their hand when we do that.

As far as calling them Fascists (or saying that we are living in a Fascist society), I have mixed feelings about that. On the one hand, you're right, they are fascists (and I have often referred to them as such in my posts). But as loudsue and lefador point out, calling them that may carry risks of its own, since the corporate media will paint us as some sort of cooks. But maybe that's just as well. If we don't point out what they are, then who will? But perhaps we need to be careful about how we say it.