Progressive

[xotoxi]

pro·gres·sive \prə-ˈgre-siv\
adjective

1 a : of, relating to, or characterized by progress
1 b : making use of or interested in new ideas, findings, or opportunities
1 c : of, relating to, or constituting an educational theory marked by emphasis on the individual child, informality of classroom procedure, and encouragement of self-expression
2 : of, relating to, or characterized by progression
3 : moving forward or onward : advancing




progress
noun
Definition: advancement, gain

Synonyms:
advance, amelioration, anabasis, betterment, boost, break, breakthrough, buildup, course, dash, development, evolution, evolvement, expedition, flowering, growth, headway, hike, impetus, improvement, increase, journey, lunge, march, momentum, motion, movement, ongoing, pace, passage, process, procession, proficiency, progression, promotion, rate, rise, step forward, stride, tour, unfolding, voyage, way

Antonyms:
decline, decrease, deterioration, retreat, retrogression

 

[Oddball]

Synonym: Fabian socialist.

 

[masquerade]

pro·gres·sive \prə-ˈgre-siv\

Barack Obama
Harry Reid
Nancy Pelosi
Michael Moore
George Soros

 

[MIPS]

pro·gres·sive \prə-ˈgre-siv\
adjective

1 a : of, relating to, or characterized by progress
1 b : making use of or interested in new ideas, findings, or opportunities
1 c : of, relating to, or constituting an educational theory marked by emphasis on the individual child, informality of classroom procedure, and encouragement of self-expression
2 : of, relating to, or characterized by progression
3 : moving forward or onward : advancing




progress
noun
Definition: advancement, gain

Synonyms:
advance, amelioration, anabasis, betterment, boost, break, breakthrough, buildup, course, dash, development, evolution, evolvement, expedition, flowering, growth, headway, hike, impetus, improvement, increase, journey, lunge, march, momentum, motion, movement, ongoing, pace, passage, process, procession, proficiency, progression, promotion, rate, rise, step forward, stride, tour, unfolding, voyage, way

Antonyms:
decline, decrease, deterioration, retreat, retrogression

Another poster that doesn't know what American Progressivism is and thinks he/she can find it in the dictionary.

Next time try a book on political science or history instead of dictionary, allow me to recommend a couple of good ones ...

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Woodrow-Liberalism-American-Intellectual-Culture/dp/0742515176/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264011788&sr=1-4"]Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism[/ame]


The Tyranny of Change: America in the Progressive Era 1890-1920

 

[xotoxi]

pro·gres·sive \prə-ˈgre-siv\
adjective

1 a : of, relating to, or characterized by progress
1 b : making use of or interested in new ideas, findings, or opportunities
1 c : of, relating to, or constituting an educational theory marked by emphasis on the individual child, informality of classroom procedure, and encouragement of self-expression
2 : of, relating to, or characterized by progression
3 : moving forward or onward : advancing




progress
noun
Definition: advancement, gain

Synonyms:
advance, amelioration, anabasis, betterment, boost, break, breakthrough, buildup, course, dash, development, evolution, evolvement, expedition, flowering, growth, headway, hike, impetus, improvement, increase, journey, lunge, march, momentum, motion, movement, ongoing, pace, passage, process, procession, proficiency, progression, promotion, rate, rise, step forward, stride, tour, unfolding, voyage, way

Antonyms:
decline, decrease, deterioration, retreat, retrogression

Another poster that doesn't know what American Progressivism is and thinks he/she can find it in the dictionary.

Next time try a book on political science or history instead of dictionary, allow me to recommend a couple of good ones ...

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Woodrow-Liberalism-American-Intellectual-Culture/dp/0742515176/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264011788&sr=1-4"]Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism[/ame]


The Tyranny of Change: America in the Progressive Era 1890-1920

I was just sharing the definition of the word.

Don't shoot the messenger!

 

[☭proletarian☭]

pro·gres·sive \prə-ˈgre-siv\
adjective

1 a : of, relating to, or characterized by progress
1 b : making use of or interested in new ideas, findings, or opportunities
1 c : of, relating to, or constituting an educational theory marked by emphasis on the individual child, informality of classroom procedure, and encouragement of self-expression
2 : of, relating to, or characterized by progression
3 : moving forward or onward : advancing




progress
noun
Definition: advancement, gain

Synonyms:
advance, amelioration, anabasis, betterment, boost, break, breakthrough, buildup, course, dash, development, evolution, evolvement, expedition, flowering, growth, headway, hike, impetus, improvement, increase, journey, lunge, march, momentum, motion, movement, ongoing, pace, passage, process, procession, proficiency, progression, promotion, rate, rise, step forward, stride, tour, unfolding, voyage, way

Antonyms:
decline, decrease, deterioration, retreat, retrogression

Democrats, Republicans, Neocons, they're all 'progressives' in that they seek 'progress'. The key difference is how they define 'progress'.

 

[xsited1]

pro·gres·sive \prə-ˈgre-siv\
adjective

1 a : of, relating to, or characterized by progress
1 b : making use of or interested in new ideas, findings, or opportunities
1 c : of, relating to, or constituting an educational theory marked by emphasis on the individual child, informality of classroom procedure, and encouragement of self-expression
2 : of, relating to, or characterized by progression
3 : moving forward or onward : advancing




progress
noun
Definition: advancement, gain

Synonyms:
advance, amelioration, anabasis, betterment, boost, break, breakthrough, buildup, course, dash, development, evolution, evolvement, expedition, flowering, growth, headway, hike, impetus, improvement, increase, journey, lunge, march, momentum, motion, movement, ongoing, pace, passage, process, procession, proficiency, progression, promotion, rate, rise, step forward, stride, tour, unfolding, voyage, way

Antonyms:
decline, decrease, deterioration, retreat, retrogression

Which, of course, bears no resemblance to the Democrat Party.

 

[Kalam]

pro·gres·sive \prə-ˈgre-siv\
adjective

Language has a well-known liberal bias. That's why many conservatives choose to communicate through grunts and barks; doing so better suits their ideology.

 

[Anguille]

pro·gres·sive \prə-ˈgre-siv\
adjective

Language has a well-known liberal bias. That's why many conservatives choose to communicate through grunts and barks; doing so better suits their ideology.

Human language is progress, so no wonder ..

 

[Darkwind]

pro·gres·sive \prə-ˈgre-siv\
adjective

1 a : of, relating to, or characterized by progress
1 b : making use of or interested in new ideas, findings, or opportunities
1 c : of, relating to, or constituting an educational theory marked by emphasis on the individual child, informality of classroom procedure, and encouragement of self-expression
2 : of, relating to, or characterized by progression
3 : moving forward or onward : advancing




progress
noun
Definition: advancement, gain

Synonyms:
advance, amelioration, anabasis, betterment, boost, break, breakthrough, buildup, course, dash, development, evolution, evolvement, expedition, flowering, growth, headway, hike, impetus, improvement, increase, journey, lunge, march, momentum, motion, movement, ongoing, pace, passage, process, procession, proficiency, progression, promotion, rate, rise, step forward, stride, tour, unfolding, voyage, way

Antonyms:
decline, decrease, deterioration, retreat, retrogression

Democrats, Republicans, Neocons, they're all 'progressives' in that they seek 'progress'. The key difference is how they define 'progress'.

Very much so.

 

[chanel]

Urban Dictionary - (the only one that counts)

Progressive

1. Someone terrified by the idea that someone, somewhere, might be earning money.

2. Someone who wants to move the country progressively closer to socialism.

3. One who advocates greater government regulation of just about anything. Progressives claim to want to help out the average Joe but really want everyone to live according to their politically correct, elitist socialist agenda. Progressives are also much nastier people than liberals, and are often hypocrites

4. What asswipe, idiot, ignorant, stupid fucking liberals are calling themselves these days. This is because the neo-cons have destroyed the name liberal. Tag someone with the word liberal these days, they are about as widely received as a child molester. These anti-American dipshipts are just really liberals who keep pushing their bullshit agenda such as: killing babies, protecting terrorists and child molestors, taking guns away from law abiding citizens but allowing gangs and crack dealers to have guns, giving more money to low life welfare mothers who have 9 kids from 8 different fathers.

5. A gay-loving satanist who wants to destroy our culture.

Commie: I want to let Islamic terrorists invade my country more easily!
Me:You are so progressive!

 

[MIPS]

Democrats, Republicans, Neocons, they're all 'progressives' in that they seek 'progress'. The key difference is how they define 'progress'.

This reminds of why, when American Progressivism became such a repugnant ideology to the general populace they decided to start calling themselves "liberals" instead of Progressives. Now apparently since they dirtied up the popular understanding of the meaning of the word liberal they want to switch back to the progressive label, apparently they figured that everyone has forgotten how utterly repugnant their statist, authoritarian ideology really is.

Unfortunately for "Progressives" , an authoritirian, statist by any other name is still an authoritarian, statist enemy of liberty. Progressivism isn't about "progress" nor has it ever been about "progress", unless your idea of "progress" is destroying individual liberty and popular sovereignty.

I guess the good news is, eventually us true liberals can go back to calling us ourselves liberals without having to be sullied by the filth of being incorrectly associated with progressives.

 

[Xenophon]

Synonym: Fabian socialist.

AKA lunatic; moonbat; dangerous fool

 

[☭proletarian☭]

pro·gres·sive \prə-ˈgre-siv\
adjective

Language has a well-known liberal bias. That's why many conservatives choose to communicate through grunts and barks; doing so better suits their ideology.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Kalam again.

 

[Mr.Fitnah]

The man who is now virtually synonymous with Progressivism, Herbert Croly (The Promise of American Life), was himself both the son of a noted proponent of Comtian positivism and the student of Harvard's Josiah Royce, a disciple of Hegel. All of these thinkers contributed to what would become the ethical foundation of the Progressive Movement: a contempt and loathing of "individualism" -- and its political expression in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution:

§ Croly: "The Promise of American Life is to be fulfilled ... by a large measure
of individual subordination and self-denial."

§ Sociologist Lester Ward: "The individual has reigned long enough."

§ Antitrust leader Henry Demarest Lloyd: Individualism is "one of the historic
mistakes of humanity."

§ The Outlook editor Lyman Abbott: "ndividualism is the characteristic of
simple barbarism, not of republican civilization."

§ Baptist minister Walter Rauschenbusch: "ndividualism means tyranny."

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2oOoCdFblc&feature=player_embedded]YouTube - YouTube Debate: Hillary - Are You a Liberal?[/ame]

 

[Oddball]

You have given out too much Reputation in the last 24 hours, try again later.

 

[☭proletarian☭]

I am a democrat in that I support a form of democracy

I am a republican in that I support a republican form of government

I am a liberal in that I hold liberty dear

I am a progressive in that I want to see America progress towards a better future

I am a social democrat in that I believe how free and egalitarian a society is can be measured by the condition of its lowest class

I am a capitalist in that I support competition on the free market

I am an anti-capitalist in that I oppose unrestricted exploitation by the elite and support regulation of the market and forced transparency

I am a conservative in the fiscal sense as an adherent of the Austrian school of business cycle theory

I am an environmentalist in that we should protect the Earth that nurtures us

I am an industrialist in that I believe a nation must develop its industry to survive

I am an American

and am more than a label, more than a catch phrase or a witty slogan

 

[Zorro!]

pro·gres·sive \prə-ˈgre-siv\
adjective

1 a : of, relating to, or characterized by progress
1 b : making use of or interested in new ideas, findings, or opportunities
1 c : of, relating to, or constituting an educational theory marked by emphasis on the individual child, informality of classroom procedure, and encouragement of self-expression
2 : of, relating to, or characterized by progression
3 : moving forward or onward : advancing

progress
noun
Definition: advancement, gain

Synonyms:
advance, amelioration, anabasis, betterment, boost, break, breakthrough, buildup, course, dash, development, evolution, evolvement, expedition, flowering, growth, headway, hike, impetus, improvement, increase, journey, lunge, march, momentum, motion, movement, ongoing, pace, passage, process, procession, proficiency, progression, promotion, rate, rise, step forward, stride, tour, unfolding, voyage, way

Antonyms:
decline, decrease, deterioration, retreat, retrogression

That's the sell job, the realty is much more stark.

Lesbian activist: I’m coming out — of the “insane progressive Left”



“That’s not a community, it’s a hive-mind cult.”

Arielle Scarcella, a blue-checked Twitter and YouTube activist for lesbian issues, which normally would put her square in the middle of the modern progressive Left. Or at least that might have been true a few years ago, but Scarcella declared this weekend that she’s had enough of the insanity on her side of the political spectrum. “The LGBT community has become a safe haven for the mentally unstable,” Scarcella declares in a short manifesto. Twitchy:

She revolts against their extreme views on:

• “cis” men
• the “transphobic” nature of “genital preferences” (ie, sexual orientation)
• gender as a “social construct … or that there are 97 genders”
• accusations of bigotry for any dissent
• the “ridiculously woke cult”
• “children drag queens,” and demanding approval when they “perform sexually for adults”

“I don’t think like these people,” Scarcella declares, “and I no longer want to be associated with them.” Welcome to the club.