Is It Time For A "Progressive" Forum?

I have been coming to DU for a long time under a variety of names. I used to contribute pretty regularly, but I don't any more.

Things have changed here. I'm certainly not the first to notice this. There are any number of threads that address the changing environment here. Not to mention the number of times it has come up in sub-threads.

For the longest time I was considered a member of the Democratic party. I guess it was around 1980 that I was referred to as a "liberal" - and that being a liberal was somehow a bad thing. As time passed, I began to be known as "someone on the Left" (whatever that means).

Now, I'm known as a "Progressive." I really don't think that I have changed my political or world views that much over the years. Yet, somehow, as the Right moved further right, I was considered to be increasingly on the Left.

But those here who think like I do, already know this from your own experience.

Okay...I'll accept that I'm now a "Progressive." It sort of fits well. After all jumping from being an FDR Democrat to a "Progressive" isn't really that far a leap.

Realizing that there is absolutely no chance that Democratic Underground would change their name to "Progressive Underground" I would respectfully suggest that we at least have a forum for Progressives...a "Progressive Forum."

While some will see this as a means of dividing us and thus hamper our abilities to exchange ideas. I see it as an opportunity to actually have threads that will not be hijacked with non-progressive ideology.

What say you....?

-P