Progressive v. Liberal?

[Agnosticsherbet]

6. Liberal and progressive (as ideolgies and movements) have changed over their history.

Herbert Hoover was a Progressive President. No one in the modern Progressive Movement would consider him as such.

FDR was a liberal, and detested by the progressives of his day. Many Progressives I know feel that FDR is the definition of their Progressive Movement.

I will ask what I have asked many times, how is Progressivism as an Ideology and a Movement defined by those who claim it. How do modern liberals define their political ideology?

I have followed a liberal ideology as it was considered in the 60's. I don't fit in with many today who call themselves liberals. I'm not radical enough.

In my opinion, progressives tend to differ from liberals in one major way, they have divorced themselves from the concept of economic liberty, the freedom to become rich. (I could be wrong. My classes in political science were a long time ago.) Liberalism from its inception embraced free markets well regulated by an active government. As our government stopped regulating big business, we became more and more conservative.