Liberal or Progressive?

[Skidmore]

41. Both, because

I consider them not to be mutually exclusive labels. I have yet to find a good explanation of how you can be liberal without being progressive or progressive without being liberal. Just doesn't work for me to try to pigeon hole people in this manner. I have never been anything but a proud liberal looking toward progress forward for our nation. The difference is that I have never been ashamed to call myself liberal and feel the need to label myself otherwise. I do not get the distinction between the two terms even when I see peope trying to explain them as political terms here because when actual discussion occurs, there is much agreement. I see that labelling as something foisted upon the left by the Luntz branding machine, and some bought it wholesale and are happy to club others with it. I won't play that game.