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3. No. Back when the Democratic Party was - as a whole - much more progressive (FDR through LBJ) it was

Reply to Nye Bevan (Original post)

Mon Oct 26, 2015, 01:22 PM

Oct 2015

possible the fall within the moderate center of the party and still advocate a very progressive agenda.

Today, the party has drifted so far from its progressive roots (Bill Clinton, for example, governed well to the right of Nixon) that those in the moderate center of the party today are better categorized as "conservative" contrasted against the rabid-right-wing-reactionary Republicans and not properly categorized as "progressive."

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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