2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Please DON'T CALL Hillary A Progressive [View all]angrychair
(8,690 posts)It is an OP subject title, an opinion, not a command. The OP doesn't claim to be "Lord of the Dictionary", I would suspect you know that. See, not "telling" you that you have this knowledge, only I think you do. Like this OP and every OP, it's an opinion.
Many OPs, such as this one, do present their opinions with supporting documentation as a way to substantiate their perspective.
While you may have an opinion of what a progressive is, there is also a generally accepted understanding of what a progressive is and is not. The original Progressive Party and their party platform is what all other progressive movements have used to model and define themselves. Why? Because, they were the first progressives and their platform is as valid today as it was then.
Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_States,_1912)
Interesting link and history. Funny that they were a splinter group of the old school Republican party.