Do you ever clarify when someone calls you/asks if you are a Democrat?

[AmericaIsGreat]

I do. I make it a point to let them know I'm a progressive liberal. "Democrat" just doesn't do that stance justice anymore. I guess it's a painful reminder about how far congressional Democrats have strayed.

[Samantha]

1. Yes, I still maintain I am a liberal (and proud of it)

Yes, it is trendy to say "progressive" but those in the Third Way (read right-leaning Democrats with truly questionable policies)call themselves this. Feeling a distinct need to be differentiated from these people, I retain the proud liberal label. Child of the 60s, independent thinker.

Sam

[TheKentuckian]

2. Yup, Gun toting, red letter Christian, Social Democrat with a mouth like a drunken sailor.

I like the smell of exploding heads in the mornings.

[AmericaIsGreat]

6. Sounds good to me.

Other than the exploding heads part :rofl:

[amyrose2712]

3. Yes.

[Poll_Blind]

4. Absolutely. I'll say I'm a "DeFazio Democrat" or just "Progressive"

I live in Oregon and Pete DeFazio is my House representative. Everyone around here gets the reference.

PB

[demosincebirth]

5. "Yellow Dog"

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

12. yup yup

:hi:

[The Straight Story]

7. I tell em I am a registered independent and if they want to discuss issues and not labels

that I am game.

[Laelth]

8. Indeed. I have had to make that point many times.

I am a liberal. I vote for Democrats only because the alternative is worse. In no way do I suggest or imply that the Democratic Party is liberal. It is not.

-Laelth

[saras]

9. I ask what their alternatives are

If their only two alternatives are D and R, then I'm a political non-Euclidian.

Otherwise I explain progressive.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. I'm a registered Democrat but don't owe my vote to the party or it's candidates.

"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." Thomas Jefferson to Francis Hopkinson, 1789.

"Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man." Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, 1795.

“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." John Quincy Adams

[RebelOne]

11. Yes, I always say I am a liberal Democrat. n/t

[Brickbat]

13. Proud DFLer here, and if it were up to me, I'd drop the D.

[Autumn]

14. I just call myself a Liberal

I don't feel a lot in common with most of the Dems in the party. I need to change my affiliation.

[Iggo]

15. Well, technically I'm not a Democrat. I just vote that way.

Everybody who knows me...well if they don't know where i stand on an issue, it's easy to guess. The only people who would ask me are strangers. Depending on how it's asked, I may reply with "yes, I am", "none of your business", or "YEAH! SO?"

[Raine]

16. I'm a Progressive first, a registered Democrat second

and they better not count on my vote because being Progressive is more important to me than being a Democrat. If there is no one who with Progressive values on the ballot I sit it out.

[PurityOfEssence]

17. No offense, but I dislike the term "progressive", and identify myself as a liberal Democrat

I think the right's endless demonizing of the term "liberal" has caused people to run from the term, and I consider this to be a species of cowardice that continues to keep us on the ropes. The "progressive" label is often used by people to somehow ingratiate themselves with the hyenas, and all this does is buttress their "tax-and-spend" vilifications of us.

I look people in the eye and let them know that I'm a left-liberal capitalist Democrat. Incentive and private property are the motivators in my worldview, with many, many controls necessary to be in place to regulate the frenzy and protect the unfortunate and weak.

Liberal. Dammit.