You say Hillary would win the GE and Sanders would lose because...?

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19. "Progressive" is being misused all over the place by various

interests who either see it as nice and try to coopt it for themselves or are hard-right conservative and see it as a bad thing to be used as a smear against the left.

Liberals and conservatives come in all degrees and various flavors. One is a progressive liberal or a progressive conservative if one believes in using the power of government to apply large solutions to large problems that may be unsolvable otherwise.

(Moderates are not a third type -- they are mixtures of relatively mild-degree liberal and/or conservative personalities. Moderate conservatives would average out conservative.)

An example of a progressive program supported by liberals and most conservatives alike is providing every school child in America one good meal 5 days a week through the National School Lunch Program.

Examples of progressive liberals are HRC supporters, Bernie supporters, O'Malley supporters, and in fact all other Democratic candidate supporters.

No GOP candidate is progressive. They are all too far right these days.