To Dems pushing Fear at Progressives...I mean this constructively. PLEASE, STOP!

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17. No, actually, that is not a natural assumption.

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For one thing, conservative is a personality type and progressive is a generic political leaning that can be applied to people across the spectrum. Bernie's been using it for those progressives who follow him, liberals of all degrees mainly, far lefts for sure, and some far rights and even cross-ballot moderate conservatives.

Yes, "conservatives" are more motivated by anxiety (fear) than liberals, but to many different degrees, many moderates not really so bad that they can't set mostly functional policy goals for a diverse society.

Extremist personalities on both the right and the left are far more like each other than either is like moderates of the left and right. Extremists on both left and right have a tendency to believe the world's going to hell in a handbasket RIGHT NOW unless people like them save it. Like the far right, the far left is not good at understanding their world, which almost always, among other things, denies the superiority of their ideology and their solutions, so that just makes things worse for them when they gather in movements of their own.

So you see, anxiety can be a big motivator for both conservatives of all strengths and for those with extremist traits on the far left.

Liberals include all the the "stay cool, man, it'll all work out" people. Fortunately for the world, not all of us think it'll work out without getting off our butts and making it happen. And those people typically at least used to join with moderate conservatives to do just that. Not in this past era, though, where moderate conservatives were trained to think liberals were the whole problem.

So it's our job, but fortunately we're on it. And HereSince1628, as a progressive your ideals are your motivation--the best way you decide to take to achieve your goals is the way you should go. Period. If Bernie had won I wouldn't be asking his people to coax me. I'd have already have joined him as a matter of course.

Go, Dems of all kinds and far-lefters, and welcome anti-Trump conservatives!