Reply #19: Progressives are basically liberals that don't want the tag liberal, or to be thought of as dirty or [View All]

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a hippie, or a tree hugger or anything else like that. It's like when the mustang changed to its new cooler, hipper, and more fashionable body style after the old one got dated and boring and nobody wanted to be seen in it anymore.

Progressives = The New Coke

Same as the old coke, but the can is more shiney.

I like to think of myself as a left leaning independent, but I probably lean too far to the left to really be considered independent. I just don't like to fully prescribe to any ideology. I like to think I'm just for whatever's smart, but too often what's smart in my mind is a progressive/liberal belief so in reality that's probably what I am. Whatever...