Why 'moderate' and 'progressive' are words of choice in SF politics
Given its consensus on many issues on the national level — such as the right for gay people to get married or whether to vote for Donald Trump or Joe Biden — San Francisco has its own political spectrum.
The terms moderate and progressive are readily used by the media and politicians as shorthand to describe the distinct factions in San Francisco politics, but whether those terms resonate with voters is an open question.
“We often use terms — the media, researchers, members, leaders in the community — that mean different things to different people, and the sometimes dangerous thing is that we don’t realize that,” said Mindy Romero, the founder and director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy in Sacramento.
Ask 20 different people for their definition of “progressive,” and you might get 20 different answers, Romero added, because it’s “something that is literally political in nature.”
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