Unfortunately, our news media and democrats tend to use the political labels that groups assign to themselves. Republicans are called conservatives, anti-abortion people are called pro-life, and those who are trying to dismantle Social Security are called reformers.
The democrats need to take a page out of the republican play book. Repubicans do not feel the need to use the labels that people assign to themselves. So called conservatives call liberals - tax and spend leftists and those who believe that a woman has the right to choose abortion if necessary are called killers.
It is time that Democrats start calling the conservatives what they really are: REGRESSIVES.
True conservatives believe in preserving (conserving) the status quo. They, however, believe that slow change is a part of our very system. The current crop of pseudo conservatives believe in restoring the U.S. economic system to the one we had in the latter part of the 19th and the early part of the 20th century. They are backward looking. They are regressive.
The time has come for those of us in the middle, the centrists to start using the labels that are appropriate. We should call the republicans regressives because they are looking backward to the days of the robber barons as their guide. Democrates could be called progressives because they are looking at an as yet unformed future. The vast majority of us are currently uncommitted and we are either slightly right or slightly left of center. We should be called Centrists.
