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  • Dave Paprockiundefined Offline
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    Typically used derisively to imply anothers political beliefs are primitive or [backward].
    Of a Conservative: One who is so conservative, they wish to move things backward in time instead of merely keeping things the same/progressing very slowly.
    Of a Liberal or Progressive: A Liberal or Progressive who believes they are in favor of individual rights and freedoms, yet advocates policies that actually [suppress] individual rights. A result of [over-zealous] and incorrect application of the concept of political correctness

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      Liberal who believes s/he is a progressive, however their ideas are backward, lacking enlightenment. [Regressives] believe their ideas are forward thinking and evolutionary however the ideology lacks moral guidance, invoke divisiveness, and is plagued with [narrow mindedness]. The existence an alternate ideology is unacceptable to a [regressive].

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        A word given to progressives due to the regressives ideas they hold, such as banning certain kinds of speakers they dont like, treating people differently based on race, and [tolerating] or defending backward cultures and religions, specially Islam. Regressives often blame the worlds troubles on the west and believe [jihadist] cannot be a result of Islamic teachings, but instead the [foreign policy] of the west.

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          Opposite of progressive. One who is opposed to womens rights, minority rights, universal civil rights, [religious freedom], freedom of [dissent], universal equality, and cares little to nothing for his fellow man.

          In favor of [widening] the economic divide and eventual elimination of the middle class. In sum, one who believes society ought undo all progress made since 1920 and go back to the 19th century.

          Currently in control of the federal government.

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            Those who have hijacked the meaning of conservatism and screwed up the Republican brand, like most GOP primary voters these days. That base: an excitable, overlapping assortment of Fox News friends, Limbaugh dittoheads, Tea Party animals, war whoopers, nativists, [Christianist] fundamentalists, à la [carte] Catholics (anti-abortion, yes; anti-torture, no), anti-Rooseveltians (Franklin and Theodore), global-warming denialists, post-Confederate white Southrons, creationists, [birthers], market idolaters, Europe demonizers, and gun fetishists.

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              A false [progressive] who [rejects] [progress].

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                A person who consciously chooses to reject [scientific] [progress] due to personal beliefs, regardless of [empirical evidence].

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                  Becoming less advanced; returning to a former or less developed state.

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