Liberal or progressive?

[zipplewrath]

117. I've read it

That's your third commercial for your blog. I've read it. I'm unimpressed.

"If I had self-identified as a progressive and been publicly associated with some of the progressive movement in my state (see my first paragraph), then it could cost me my job."

This was the defense many white professionals used in their tacit support of segregation in Alabama. I don't think one could call the desegregation movement within the democratic party "purity" movement, but that seems to be your argument. I'm sorry you feel like you're stuck on the wrong side of progress, but that doesn't make it a "purity movement" for progressive democrats to continue to work to fill the congress with progressives from ALL states, nor to hold their feet to the fire once they are there. It does them little good to win the seat and lose the votes.

"I'm as liberal as they come." ... "my own evolution from progressive to blue dog".... "you can tell how progressive I was..."

You apprear very conflicted.