Liberal vs Progressive. What's the difference

[SamCooke]

I consider myself to be a liberal.

[elleng]

1. Me too, and progressive.

Silly labels which many apparently take seriously.

[cyclezealot]

4. Me too.

Why not use the word liberal. Cowardice. Reagan destroyed a word with which we should be proud and we let him get away with it.

[Syrinx]

2. well, since you chose to call yourself a liberal instead of a progressive...

What's the difference between them to you?

[SamCooke]

6. It seems like progressives are even more liberal than the most liberal of people

Take the torture issue. I view it as being wrong, but I don't care about prosecutions. Progressives want prosecutions. Thats really the only subject where I see a huge difference. Progressives really want special prosecutors and hearings on the matter, I just want to move on and not look back. They also seem a lil more impatient than regular liberals.

[Syrinx]

7. so you see "progressives" as "more liberal liberals?"

Is that right?

Do you think that if you murdered someone and were arrested, that you would be successful if you told the judge "Let's look forward, not backward?" Should you be?

To me, progressives are mostly about economic issues; liberals mostly about social ones.

I agree, largely, with both.

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

18. I guess that makes me a Progressive

if you really wanted to bring out the point of no prosecutions for torture, you should have made the OP about that.

So, move on.

[Kablooie]

3. I'm more of a Proberal or a Libressive.

or maybe a Larebil or Evissergorp

[Joe the Liberal]

5. I don't see the difference either.........

too me they are both left wing and that's good enough for me.

[CJCRANE]

8. You can have

Unabashed liberals
Card-carrying liberals
Bleeding-heart liberals

but there's only one type of progressive.

[sweetladybug]

9. I think liberal and progressive basically mean the same. We (Democrats)

allowed the Republicans to turn liberal into a bad word

[rucky]

10. semantics

it's harder for limbaugh to say "progressive" with the same amount of disdain. It just rolls off the tongue differently.

[Echo In Light]

12. Ha...yes, true, both of your points

[conscious evolution]

11. progressive is a liberal re branded

The term came into use after the word liberal was turned into a four letter word by the riech wing scream machine.

[MADem]

13. It's a very valid question--well done for asking it!!

I know nothing about these folks, but they had a very spirited discussion on the same question: http://www.rockridgenation.org/questions/what-s-the-difference-between-a-progressive-and-a-liberal/

[Echo In Light]

14. I prefer Leftist, myself, if for any reason it's in direct opposition to Rightists

[underpants]

15. I don't care but there is a difference

I delight in watching conservatives falling all over themselves trying to pull the "libertarian" wrap around themselves

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. The way I use it, a liberal thinks the system is bascially fine and simply wants

to tinker with its more objectionable aspects. A progressive thinks that the system itself is unjust and needs a major overhaul.

[Echo In Light]

17. Well put

[Romulox]

19. IMO, "progressive" is the mantle adopted by third way/ "new" Democrats of late

who are attempting to disassociate themselves from the Party's traditional values. Thus, to me, "progressive" tend to conjure up the "socially liberal/economically conservative" type.

[seabeyond]

20. i thought this was the difference. n/t