Friday, November 28, 2008

'Liberal' and 'Progressive'

I don't have much patients [er, that would be patience] for liberals who allowed conservatives to make 'liberal' a dirty word, and who fled to the term "progressive."

Michael Lind discusses the phenomenon, and the terminological question at Salon.com.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey WS, happy Thanksgiving! Thanks for your writings. Always thoughtful and worth visiting.

8:23 PM  
Blogger Orlando C. Harn said...

You spelled "patience" wrong.

8:54 PM  
Blogger Winston Smith said...

Thanks, G!

And thanks, AS. Tired blogging generates problems with homophones...

9:59 PM  
Blogger lovable liberal said...

Still here. Still unrepentant. I hope the timid progressives will rejoin me.

11:53 PM  

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