In front page news today, the Chicago Tribune, and the Fox Channel, noted that the word “conservative” is out. Conservatives shall no longer refer to themselves as conservatives, which has become too associated with the ideas of large, imperial, self righteous and overly intrusive government at the expense of individual liberty, authoritarianism at the hands of individual liberay, hypocrisy, and, frankly, just really, really bad foreign policy while all the while thumping one’s chess declaring one’s bravery while sending the sons and daughters of everyday Americans off to fight in wars that they wouldn’t dream of engaging in themselves.
Much of this, of course, is hyperbole, exaggerated, and left wing stereotpying of the right, The Tribune went on to note. However, Conservatives were not having any part of it. As of today, party leaders announced, those formerly known as “conservatives,” shall heretofore, along with the “artist formerly known as Prince,” be known simply as “The Sign,” or, signers, for short. As in, signers in the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution. (Birthers was already taken.)
Ha ha ha ha. No one was fooled, right? Because this is utterly ridiculous.
But yet, on the other hand, “Liberals,” after the Right had managed to completely define the word, ran screaming from it. So much so that they are no longer “Liberals,” but “Progressives.” (Sort of like the insurance company).
Maybe a better idea would have been to start a third political party in America, long overdue, and simply call it the “Progressives.” (Only problem is that this would have only furthered this country’s shifting to the right — see above not completely untrue stereotypes of “conservatives” for example — but still desperately needed, and long overdue.)
But that’s not what happened. Instead: Out — Liberals. In – Progressives.
Alan Grayson is one of the most unafraid members of Congress out there. He used the term, because there are only so many battles to fight, and Chris Matthews had rather inappropriately attached a label to him. But then Matthews had this to say, raising a good question for “progressives.”
Hey look, don;’t hide from that word liberal. progressive sounds a little, well, i cant say that word, pussillanimous. ….this progressive sounds like you are hiding from who you are.
Here’s the video: