In modern political parlance, the term “progressive” is heir-apparent to the term “liberal.” This is a result of the word “liberal” having been
so badly crucified by Republicans
as to be beyond resurrection in
our lifetimes.
My fellow Democrats, let’s turn the tables. There is nothing “conservative” about launching wars of choice on little more than a hunch and a grudge. There is nothing “conservative” about running record federal deficits and burdening our children with what amounts to a birth tax. There is nothing “conservative” about a largely Republican corporate culture that is polluting our earth and the minds of our children while paying little taxes and sending our jobs overseas. There is nothing “conservative” about selling out our future in hopes that God will someday sort things out.
Let’s start calling it like it is. More and more, Republicans are not “conservative,” they are “regressive.” The true “conservatives,” honest and
civil and fiscally responsible, have been marginalized within a party of regressives who control our government and want our nation to regress to the days when we didn’t take care of our elderly, when abortions were done in the back alley and when
social justice was the dream of a black reverend.
So with every political conversation, with every letter to the editor, with every sign at a protest, say it like it is: “regressives.”
Todd Huffman
Eugene