You use a label. I refute your label, and you tell me that they are imprecise.
Then don't use the labels. Duh.
Conservative has a meaning to almost all who read the label. That decidedly does NOT include folks who try to ban large sugary drinks. Almost everyone who sees someone try that crap would call him a progressive.
meh to your homework assignment. If you have a point to make using those two progressives, do your own homework. I ain't interested.
I'll just say it again and move on: Bloomberg is not a conservative. He is a progressive.
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I learned about your definition of "progressive" on the Glen Beck show a few years back.
What I learned is that "progressive" has become a reactionary curse-word for everything that is different from what people like Glen Beck like.
Roosevelt was a "progressive" because he broke up the trusts.
Wilson was a "progressive" because he advocated income tax, public education and what became the first social safety net programs.
Of the two, I would have preferred Teddy Roosevelt because he was a barrel of intelligence, action and fun, and Wilson was a racist.
Many "conservative" people will get annoyed with you if you call Teddy a "progressive" because they like his style, and do not think it too nice if you posture yourself as a patriot while making fun of the guy up on Mt. Rushmore. Roosevelt was an open carry fan. Then again, Roosevelt was also a militarist.
I rather liked both Wilson and Roosevelt's "progressive" views. Neither, I suspect, would have approved of Bloomberg's big gulp ban.
Major "progressive" ideas include giving women the right to vote and civil rights. I am also rather fond of that kind "progress."
Would we be better off with a "regressive" in any of these areas?
Nixon, the "conservative" was about expanding government to combat crime and did his best to roll back the 4th Amendment. He gave us the expansion of executive privilege and modern regulatory state. Reagan, "the conservative" brought us the basis for much of our present unbalanced budgets. Bush, "the conservative" brought us domestic surveillance, Iraq and Medicare Part D.
But you "ain't interested." You've "moved on" again. "Meh."
One problem with firing behind you while you continuously run away is that you always keep missing.
Yoo hoo! We're still here! And we'll catch you around!