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Scootaloo

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2. "Moderate" and "Progressive" are different political descriptors

Reply to Nye Bevan (Original post)

Mon Oct 26, 2015, 01:19 PM

Oct 2015

"Moderate progressive" is political nonsense, because you're taking two different positions on the political scale and trying to glue them together. You might as well be a radical conservative*, or a liberal totalitarian.

*(I know this is a popular term, but the proper term would be reactionary, not radical.)

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Is it possible for a Democrat who's a "moderate" to also be "progressive"? [View all] Nye Bevan Oct 2015 OP

i have found that most moderates have no idea what that means. La Lioness Priyanka Oct 2015 #1

"Moderate" and "Progressive" are different political descriptors Scootaloo Oct 2015 #2

..Radical conservatives ProgressiveVC Oct 2015 #5

The Khmer Rouge were Nationalists, with a dash of Marxism. Essentially Stalinism Scootaloo Oct 2015 #7

Fair enough - but ProgressiveVC Oct 2015 #10

That's why I never say "The Reagan Revolution" deutsey Oct 2015 #13

No. Back when the Democratic Party was - as a whole - much more progressive (FDR through LBJ) it was Attorney in Texas Oct 2015 #3

I've never been clear as to what a 'progressive' actually is, to be honest. Marr Oct 2015 #4

Progressivism is a belief that the government should be a vehicle for improving society by making Attorney in Texas Oct 2015 #11

We talking alternating weeks here depending on the conversation and who, the democrat is talking to? Autumn Oct 2015 #6

so self proclaimed moderate republican presidents cannot be progressive? nt msongs Oct 2015 #8

Not in today's Republican Party. 50 years ago, maybe; 75 years ago, definitely; 100 years ago the Attorney in Texas Oct 2015 #12

Please provide a political description of modern moderate and progresive Agnosticsherbet Oct 2015 #9

All of these terms vastly oversimplify people and their positions. FSogol Oct 2015 #14