Definition of Liberal

One of the big differences between a liberal and a progressive is that a liberal does not oppose change. change is good when needed. A progressive believes that all change is good and therefore must bring about change for the sake of change being good. A liberal looks back at a long line of historical events and chooses his way forward carefully. A progressive's history begins when he wakes up each morning. A liberal recognizes that humanity is flawed and must be carefully monitored lest its worst aspects manifest itself. Progressives believe that humanity is what you make it. A liberal knows that humanity is not perfectible. A progressive believes that humans must be perfected. The conundrum the progressives can never address is where did the present failure of mankind come from and how is the deeply flawed going to bring about flawlessness. Two horns of the dilemma that can never be addressed by the progressives in our midst. Thus we see the progressives trying to bring about socialism/communism which they see as the perfection of mankind even though socialism/communism has failed and failed miserably every time it has been tried. The progressive logic is always "it failed because it was not done correctly all those other times." Kind of funny but such a sad condition for humanity to be under the sway of progressives. Those guys will kill you.