Do you refer to yourself as a

[maveric]

I've seen the term "Progressive" making its way of late. I personally call myself a "Liberal" and I'm proud of that.
Is there a difference? Or has "Liberal" been vilified so badly that people are afraid to be known as one?

What are you?

[ulysses]

1. any of the first three. n/t

[xchrom]

2. socialist

i'm old fashioned that way.

[Maddy McCall]

3. Liberal

[goodhue]

4. progressive

Make that a populist progressive

[Mojambo]

5. All of the above. n/t

[Madspirit]

21. Good Answer...n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. ditto

[lvx35]

6. progressive.

Has the most meaning to me, seems optimistic. All about the progress.

[AlCzervik]

7. liberal.

[Desertrose]

8. Somewhere between liberal progressive leftist socalist I guess...

that would be "other"?

I think the definitions of the first two, maybe three, have become confused....


DR

[tekisui]

9. Populist!! Power to the PEOPLE!!

[lonestarnot]

30. Woot a DK supporter too!

[TahitiNut]

10. Independent liberal ... proudly, lovingly, and without the slightest apology.

I place PEOPLE above PROPERTY and LIBERTY above SAFETY.

I tell people that the "SAFEST" place they'll be is 6' under - but they won't have any liberty.
We get there too soon to try to live that way.

[piedmont]

11. left-leaning libertarian, or liberal libertarian-- NOT to be confused with Libertarian. nt

[guitar man]

12. according to a lot of my friends

I'm a left leaning libertarian.(small l).

I prefer to refer to myself as a realist. The reality of what is going on in this country and the fact that I refuse to bury my head in the sand is the reason places and people like DU appeal to me.

I believe the reason the country is in the shape it is in is because, starting with Reagan, too many people in this country became convinced it was good public policy to kiss the powdered and pampered behinds of the uber-wealthy aristocratic class regardless of the cost to the rest of the nation. Well, look where it has gotten us. Who is going to clean this mess up?? :mad:

If anybody wants to call me a liberal, socialist, commie, hippy moonbat or anything else, I don't give a damn, I see things the way I see them, without rose colored glasses.

[maxsolomon]

13. SOCIAL LIBERTARIAN

if its good enough for noam, its good enough for me.

[billyoc]

14. Trade Unionist. n/t

[Katherine Brengle]

15. I use progressive and liberal equally, and have been known to call myself

a socialist.

[madrchsod]

16. wobbly

"dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,
Alive as you and me.
Says I "But Joe, you're ten years dead"
"I never died" said he,......

From San Diego up to Maine,
in every mine and mill,

where working-men defend their rights,
it's there you find Joe Hill........."

[BlooInBloo]

17. Either of the first two.

[Forkboy]

18. Human

Although just barely at times. :)

[Peregrine Took]

19. To me a "liberal" has a knee jerk reaction to social causes where a

"progressive" decides each one on its own merits.

[stimbox]

20. All of the above.

It looks like Progressive is being co-opted by the DLCers.
Liberal is good as long as it's not NEO-Liberal.

[MuseRider]

22. Socialist. n/t

[Annces]

24. Biocentrist

Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

[RushIsRot]

25. Curmudgeon.

[marions ghost]

26. I care less and less what I'm called....

I don't think a 'liberal' is defined in terms of SUVs and Wal-Mart shopping habits, tho I'm a fan of neither. Those are superficial consumer issues.

Isn't it more basic than that? A mindset, an attitude.

Awake as opposed to asleep? Feeling as opposed to uncaring? Tolerant as opposed to closed-minded? Less fearful, less constipated? More flexible? More generous, more fair?

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I'm for impeachment, does that make me a flaming lefty liberal?

[NancyBreen]

27. I proudly proclaim myself as a pinko left wing liberal and have since the late 60's nt

[Phredicles]

28. Any of the first four, depending

on my mood. I'm feeling kind of leftistish today, so I clicked on that one.

[SeattleGirl]

29. Liberal, and not ashamed to say it.

If others don't like it (especially the wing nuts), that's their problem, not mine.

[Liberal In Texas]

31. Liberal. And I don't take any shit off of anybody who says it to me with a sneer. n/t

[JitterbugPerfume]

32. I refer to myself as a socialist

more and more these days .

Actually I am more of a populist --socialist

[H2O Man]

33. Good question.

I think that it is obvious that different people apply very different meanings to those words. I think of people like Hubert Humphrey when I say, "liberal." He was an honorable man, and a good politician. But I do not consider my views as being the same (or close to the same) as his. I agree with him on many issues, and am significantly to the left of him on many others. Hence, I think of myself as a "progressive." I think Martin Luther King Jr., was a good example of a "progressive" to compare to Humphrey's "liberal."

[B Calm]

34. I'm liberal and conservative.... I don't like labels!

[1620rock]

35. Radical liberal.

[Lilith Velkor]

36. A fucking anarchist

:hi:

[mwooldri]

37. So what about Christian Liberals? Can't call them Christian Democrats.

Because that term is in use in Europe to describe right wing parties.

But if there was a term that described me then Christian Democrat would be the best fitting one, shame about it being already hijacked by the wrong wing.

Mark.

[marmar]

38. Leftist, Liberal, Progressive - I like 'em all

Lately I've been identifying myself as a Progressive a lot..... Or as a Democratic Socialist, to give things a more European feel. :)

[nadinbrzezinski]

39. Independent

even if my politics are increasingly to the left

Until the Dems get their act together, I am firly in the INDIE camp

[JanMichael]

40. Using your catagories: Pinko-Red-Commie

I've gone totally to the left.

[Synnical]

41. Progressive

And it irks me that HRC dares call herself such. For me, Progressive = VERY Liberal.