By that definition:

Ted Cruz is a progressive...towards theocracy.

Donald Trump is a progressive...towards corparatocracy.

Hillary's history does suggest which direction she would progress, and it's iffy at best if it's the right direction.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)

7. Well asked. Progress can be forward or backward. eom

Reply to TCJ70 (Reply #4)

Sat Feb 6, 2016, 10:24 PM

Feb 2016

Avalux

(35,015 posts)

5. A progressive is a person advocating or implementing social reform or new, liberal ideas.

Reply to RBInMaine (Original post)

Sat Feb 6, 2016, 10:23 PM

Feb 2016

I know you really want to believe that Hillary is a progressive but she's not. Sorry.

orpupilofnature57

(15,472 posts)

6. That's Simple, True, but Progress means different things to the 1% and if you don't see that you are

Reply to RBInMaine (Original post)

Sat Feb 6, 2016, 10:24 PM

Feb 2016

simple .

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)

8. Bless your heart...

Reply to RBInMaine (Original post)

Sat Feb 6, 2016, 10:25 PM

Feb 2016

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)

9. Yep, I'm a progressive. I don't think I need to prove anything tho

Reply to RBInMaine (Original post)

Sat Feb 6, 2016, 10:28 PM

Feb 2016

and what's with the Purity Test. The Democratic Party is diverse, sorta like the United State of America.

AOR

(692 posts)

10. Millions of struggling working class people everywhere are suffering, dying, and being destroyed...

Reply to RBInMaine (Original post)

Sat Feb 6, 2016, 10:33 PM

Feb 2016

by policies that cater to the whims of a ruling class that puts profit over the needs of the whole. If taking an unrelenting stance against that destruction is purist...then purists fighting against that should proudly wear that label.

All the “when will you purists ever be happy” really means is “when will you fall in line with the idea that it is business as usual and stop upsetting our defense of that”

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)

11. Actually, it doesn't mean that at all.

Reply to RBInMaine (Original post)

Sat Feb 6, 2016, 11:36 PM

Feb 2016

Progressivism is a broad philosophy based on the Idea of Progress, which asserts that advancement in science, technology, economic development, and social organization are vital to improve the human condition.

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The contemporary common political conception of progressivism in the culture of the Western world emerged from the vast social changes brought about by industrialization in the Western world in the late 19th century, particularly out of the view that progress was being stifled by vast economic inequality between the rich and the poor; minimally regulated laissez-faire capitalism with out-of-control monopolistic corporations; and intense and often violent conflict between workers and capitalists, thus claiming that measures were needed to address these problems.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism

Liberal_Stalwart71

(20,450 posts)

12. Thanks, because I was frustrated by this argument. Being progressive and liberal are two different

Reply to RBInMaine (Original post)

Sat Feb 6, 2016, 11:38 PM

Feb 2016

things. Similar but not the same.

I believe that one can be progressive but NOT liberal.

QC

(26,371 posts)

14. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone,

Reply to RBInMaine (Original post)

Sun Feb 7, 2016, 01:33 AM

Feb 2016

“it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)

15. Best response to the word salad/lecture du jour.

Reply to QC (Reply #14)

Sun Feb 7, 2016, 01:36 AM

Feb 2016

QC

(26,371 posts)

17. Thank you. If I had a nickel

Reply to beam me up scottie (Reply #15)

Sun Feb 7, 2016, 01:43 AM

Feb 2016

for every time someone chirped that "Being a progressive means you want to make progress!!!" I would be hanging out with the guys from Goldman.

No. Words mean things.