Yesterday, a friend messaged me to say, “I wish people of our political stripe would quit using the term
"progressive" because in political parlance it means ultra-left wing.”
He then went on to provide the following description of “progressive”
as:
… (of taxation or a tax) increasing as a proportion of the sum taxed as
that sum increases : steeply progressive income taxes.
… (of a card game or dance) involving a series of sections for which
participants successively change place or relative position.
… archaic engaging in or constituting forward motion.
… (of a group, person, or idea) favoring or implementing social reform
or new, liberal ideas : a relatively progressive governor.
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| Leadership means putting the best ideas to work |
YES … putting the word ‘progressive’ together WITH ‘conservative’
generally is NOT a good plan, and in fact one could end up with an
"Oxymoron" … and as he said, heavy emphasis on ‘moron’.
That said however, in context, and with a comma after the word
‘progressive’, and before ‘conservative’, it can also mean being open-minded
(that's good), as well as making use of (or interested in) new ideas, findings,
or opportunities.
