Posted by Dan Ewert : 12/17/2002 03:17:00 AM (Archive Link)
One final note… has anybody noticed the tendency for liberals and Democrats to refer to themselves as “progressives?” They like to think of themselves as the sole folks who are moving anything forward while everybody else, like the Republicans, are holding us back. The Repubs, of course, are the “conservatives.” I just know there’s a bland idiot out there quoting Webster’s definitions for liberal and conservative like some insipid opening paragraph to a high school essay (“Webster’s defines symbolism as….”). Save it. Republicans are just as interested as anybody in helping the country progress, they just have a far different vision in how to do so and in where it should go. If Democrats want claim to the term, “progressive,” very well. Republicans should start referring to themselves as “intelligently progressive.”