Why Does the Liberal, Democratic Establishment Hate Progressives? Seriously

[mwooldri]

57. As a former card carrying UK Liberal Democrat...

... I too have wondered what the difference is.

I thought the word Progressive was synonymous with Liberal Democrat because the Republicans had somehow demonised the term liberal. I've been ok with the term "liberal democrat" because it is where I do align my political views and while the US Democratic Party is neither a liberal nor socialist party it aligns closest with global liberal values... closer to social democracy than the US Republican Party wjich aligns closest with global conservative theory. Except in the case of #45.

Stein is "Green". Thus aligns closest with Social Democrats, but emphasis on environmental policy. Nader has been a Democrat, a Republican, a Populist, a Progressive... hard to pin him down. But neither are mainstream Democrats and neither want to identify as such.