Progressive

From Conservapedia

Progressive policies, in political science, are those which make progress towards goals seen as benefiting society. Since all politicians claim that their ideas and policies are meant to benefit the public, calling a policy "progressive" is thus practically meaningless. In US politics, "progressive" is a synonym for "Liberal", used to evade the bad connotation of the latter term.

Liberals use the term to describe themselves and their policies in contrast to "regressive" policies of their opponents. For example, they'll ask rhetorically, "Do you want to go back to the 1950s?" implying that women were oppressed by being forced to be housewives and men were oppressed by being false accused of favoring Communism (see McCarthyism).

The term Progressive is new term that most politicians who considered themselves to be liberal have given themselves. The term came about short before the 2006 elections. It implemented to help distance politicians, mainly Democrats, for the negative history associated with various members of the party at that time. It also was meant to create a belief that conservatives were not able to think of a progressive^{[circular definition]} future for the United States.

While the term has been popular among the media, most of the population still refers to the two major philosophies as conservative and liberal. The majority opinion of this event is because the current population has a set history with these two titles. Also its easier to visualization the contrasts between conservative and liberal instead of conservative and progressive.