Ken
People also think progressive is a replacement word for liberal.
In the past there were republican liberals as well as progressives.
No more. They have been purged. Well maybe the teabaggers will finish the job…
Here is the last one I have read:
Excerpt:
Past “liberal” republicans such as Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, La Guardia, Thomas Dewey, Nelson Rockefeller and Earl Warren represented Republicans who adhered to basic liberal ideology of positive government action to alleviate economic and social ills and to funnel and guide in a basic way the powerful free-market system to ultimately benefit not the CEO’s or stockholders or the upper echelon of society but for the rest of Americans.
People of a political unit (City, State or country)owning and operating their infrastructure (Roads, water, power and waste disposal) are progressive values and have been under attack by conservatives for decades. As liberals and progressives are driven out of the republican party, electing republican becomes more dangerous since the corporate, theocratic and know nothing (teabagger) wings are all that is left.