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2016 Postmortem

merrily

(45,251 posts)

3. 3rd way deliberately discredited "liberal," then deliberately muddled the meaning of "progressive."

Reply to Segami (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 29, 2015, 03:11 AM

Oct 2015

http://www.democraticunderground.com/127710158.

Meanwhile, Republicans jumped in, referring to everything that is not 100% RW as "liberal," or even "socialist."

Political terms no longer have any meaning at all. See Orwell's 1984.

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