Reply #35: "Reading with clarity" assumes one knows the subject matter [View All]

and as many, many, many, posts have made clear, what's upsetting the "progressives" (according to self-identified people on the Internet who claim that progressive Dems are going to sit the election out even though turnout in the primaries suggest increased turnout in the GE, not a depressed turnout) is the Dem's votes for IWR, PATRIOT, and NCLB. Since those occurred in the past, and are therefore impossible to undo, these so-called progressives (who are obsessed with the past. Go figger!) have based their complaints on positions that cannot be compromised. They've already occurred.

So yes, I would say it's reasonable to speak of those who have staked a claim on the future (ie. why do you think they call themselve PROGRESSives?) while keeping their eyes uncompromisingly on the past, as "fringe", "loony", or whatever derisive term comes to mind.