Edwards Offers Progressive Agenda

Yes, "Edwards Offers Progressive Agenda". We've experienced so much "progress" in the last century that things will no doubt arrive at perfection any day now. It's always the left with the nu-speak. Accepted definitions are never enough for the "progressives". Definitions are of the past and the "progressive" is all about the future. They invent illusion after illusion, until even the man in the street calls bull@!$%#, but no matter: they'll just invent a fresher carrot.

I guess I am not as politically charged up about it as you ... I just think it is a dumb term. Look at every movie ever made ... "progress" is the enemy. The robber baron always said "You can't stop progress!" before he died under a mountain or whatever happens to robber barons in movies when the guy who just wants to keep his land ( you know, the conservative who just wants to make money and raise a family ) wins in the end. 'Progress' is what rationalizes eminent domain seizures and government grants and corporate subsidies.

Why anyone with a clue would call themselves 'progressive' - which makes me think of robber barons and highways and Tang ( well, let's exempt yummy Tang ) - is beyond me, especally since most environmentalists are supposed to be left wing. Environmentalists are in favor of progress? Since when?

"John Edwards Offer Robber Baron And Corporate Welfare Agenda." Not as catchy, but more in line with what non-political people associate with the word "progress."

I bet that sum@!$%# Karl Rove planted that term among the left wing folks. He's that evil.

We seem to be referencing different versions of "progress". When I see "progressive", I think "socialist". Just as "socialist" became a dirty word, so will "progressive", and then they'll move onto some other mask. Reminds me of "affirmative" action. Those with an agenda will load their terms. It's never enough to simply call a thing what it is. The right is not immune to this, but for the full goosestep, you gotta go left.

Pseudo, I know what you mean but someone had to pick the name first. I can understand why homosexuals would pick 'gay' ... it's a happy word and at that time they probably needed some happiness, since Paul Lynde had all the good acting jobs locked up ... I can understand why right wing people would pick 'conservative' ... it's a slow, plodding term and makes old men feel like things were better when they were the ones screwing up the world ... but I cannot for the life of me fathom why some numbskull decided "progress" was a political term anyone would want to adopt.

And no one has. Other than mopey grad students it had its day in the 1980s ( we all listened to "progressive music" because the friggin' radio station kept calling it that ) yet here it is creeping into an AP headline. I am guessing the writer is either in his 40s or just got hired out of Mopey Grad Student School.