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   From: maxheadroom@localnet.com   
      
   Kurt Nicklas  wrote in   
   news:3cb2da41-5084-44ff-b684-647aa6864172@u20g2000yqj.googlegroups.com:   
      
   > On Feb 24, 8:38 pm, MattB    .   wrote:   
   >> On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:30:40 -0800 (PST), Kurt Nicklas   
      
   >>  wrote:   
      
   >>> So just what is so "progressive" about the Left?   
      
   >> Nothing at all the liberals are just closet Marxist.   
      
   > Why call themselves 'progressive'?   
      
   > Is it just marketing? Like "New & Improved"?   
      
   Ya know, about ten or fifteen years ago I came across a "progressive" website   
   while surfing one day.   
   This feeling of deja vu got stronger and stronger as I read, and I was   
   wracking my brain, thinking,   
   "Where have I seen this rhetoric before?" All of this class warfare, oppressed   
   workers, downtrodden   
   minorities jabber was ringing bells.   
      
   Finally it dawned on me! CPUSA! Right out of the Maoist literature of the   
   '70s. The label "liberal"   
   was out of favor at the time, so they had rebranded themselves as   
   "progressives."   
      
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