Reply #419: Interesting definition

[droidamus2]

I always thought the 'progressives' were just liberals that let the media and the Republicans convince them that 'liberal' was a bad word. Your right in the sense that I am a liberal and I see the pragmatic benefit in not cutting off my nose to spite my face. Yes I would love for there to be more parties than just the Dems and Reps so we would have a real choice, but to not vote Democratic Party (voting Green or whatever) to make an idealistic point while allowing a Republican to actually win seems to be self-defeating to me. Yes you remain pure to your ideals but the country gets screwed in the process. I don't know the answer other than building a 'progressive' (going with your definition) party from the ground up so that when you choose to not vote Democratic Party the candidate you do vote for has an actual chance of winning.