Can you be a progresive if your...

[Omaha Steve]

So what automatically kicks you off the progressive list?

Post your own as well.

[zappaman]

1. can you be a progressive if

you don't know the difference between "your" and "you're"?

[Dept of Beer]

Don't fergit "yer."

[Omaha Steve]

5. Two many drinks at dinner

Tonight I had my reasons. :-)

[johnnie]

6. Can you be a progressive if

you start a sentence with a small "c"?

[femmocrat]

20. .... or how to spell "progressive"?

:shrug:

[WhiteTara]

2. If you mean don't waste money on wars

then that would be a fiscal conservative and would therefor also be progressive. But the rest? no.

[Scuba]

3. In my mind being progressive has more to do with...

...truth, science and caring for one's fellow man than any one cause.

[B-Stupid]

4. I understand all options but the

Anti-armed forces?

[Omaha Steve]

7. There are many posts here that echo the Kansas group on US soldiers

The kill, rape, and maim at will etc.

[B-Stupid]

18. Ah, OK thanks..

[Balbus]

8. I'm anti-death penalty - I guess i'm off the list.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. wait... "anti death penalty"?

Maybe you meant "pro death penalty"

[Jackpine Radical]

10. Anti-environmentalist.

But I find I can actually live with some fundamentalists if they are the kind who stress love & compassion over hellfire for gays, atheists, abortionists, etc.

My favorite example is Jim Wallis of Sojourners Magazine, named for Sojourner Truth. (Google her if you don't lknow about her.)

[SidDithers]

11. Anti-abortion for me...nt

Sid

[RKP5637]

12. Now I'm afraid to use Anti-freeze! LOL n/t

[demmiblue]

13. I can't pick just one! n/t

[Violet_Crumble]

14. You haven't included anything about US foreign policy...

I find it difficult to see anyone as being LW if they support foreign occupations and US exceptionalism and unilateralism, and think Might Makes Right trumps international law, and that multinationalism and the UN are things to be opposed...

[frogmarch]

15. I'd kick myself off if

I were Anti-Union, Anti-GLBT, Anti-abortion rights (how I felt about abortion would be a non-issue), Anti-ADA. Those are the biggies for me.

I'd also not call myself a progressive if I were Anti-secularism.

[NNN0LHI]

16. Anti-teachers and Anti-union is the same thing isn't it?

Kind of goes hand in hand.

Don

[blue neen]

17. IMHO, it would be a combination of things that would kick one off the progressive list.

Probably the most important to me would be a lack of open-mindedness.

:dem:

[yella_dawg]

19. Liberal Purity Tests

Fascinating.



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[Kaleva]

21. Never have claimed to be a progressive.

So getting kicked off such a list wouldn't be a biggee as I didn't belong on it in the first place.

[rurallib]

22. in my youth (the 60s & 70s)the dems and liberals stood for something

1) Unions and working people
2) jobs
3) social safety nets (SS, Medicare etc.)
4) education.
5) subset of 3 - healthcare for all.

Seems to me as the repubs moved more and more right, many of the dissatisfied Eisenhower Republicans left the repubs in name, but continued to vote for Repubs while calling themselves Dems.
o now we got a third of a party that is right of Ike, a third that isn't sure what Dems stand for and a third about ready to bolt to keep the liberal passions alive.

[Kingofalldems]

23. I voted anti-union so I guess this post will be deleted

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24. Anti affirmative action.

In the beginning... it might have had a noble purpose and results, but now it's an antiquated/abused system that needs to be eliminated.

People should be hired based on their merits... not their ethnicity.

[Odin2005]

25. 1, 3, 4, 6, and 8.

[Raine]

26. Anti-environment ... though I voted anti-union

because to me either one takes one off.

[johnaries]

27. Right, because no TRUE Scotsman..... er, Progressive.......

:rofl: