Reply #92: The Oligarchy is in place and, barring a revolution, is here to stay.

[NorthCarolina]

Liberalism has been demonized so successfully that many Liberals are afraid to even identify as such, and instead feel it necessary to quietly call themselves progressives. Even then they likely only admit to the progressive label when amongst those they feel to be like minded. Liberalism is the way out, but even here on DU, anything that hints at Liberal ideas is immediately discredited, ridiculed and unrec'd by those who benefit from a continued conservative corporate-friendly agenda.