@Lash,
I remember your morphs, Lash, admire you for them, not to gush. I've morphed on all manner of subjects myself, over time. A lot of people do, I think, though we don't always pick up that that is happening. Sometimes, for me, it has been from something a non internet friend snapped at me about, that I disagreed with and snapped back about, maybe those just being two sentences between us in total, or conversations or rants in paragraphs, depending on the subject, but sometimes those were a start of a transition. Sometimes it's just from reading reading and more reading, articles or on a2k.
I remember becoming more conservative on something, but, hah, I forget what it was now.
When I first was on abuzz and a2k, I gradually awakened to the fact that a whole lot of the world didn't think the word liberal meant anything like 'left'. More middle of road, thought of as quite tame. Different than in the U.S. I know.
I still don't know what progressive means, in its older or new usage, much less if I am one. I consider myself a lefty, certainly left of where the Democrats seem to be at now. Or maybe the Democrats have been asleep. On the other hand, I'm no authoritarian revolutionary, having as I do a batch of libertarian views in my makeup.
One of the things that rankles, to me, re a2k arguments, is the easy hurling of labels that mean different things to different people, the hurlings being made with distaste. I can understand people having different views going on.
I remember starting a thread on socialism, not sure what year, but a long time ago, wanting to know what the word was taken to mean by a variety of posters. I remember all hell breaking loose, or so it seemed to me then, and I knew less after I read most of that than I did to start with.
I've had a life of some political involvement but am on the quiet side now for regular daily life reasons. Still, I'm following all this. Bernie shares my political territory more than any other, by far. Of course I'll vote.
