My hostility to the "liberal" label and consequent preference for "progressive", in spite of the problems of the latter, stems almost entirely from several years of experience in teaching introductory Political Theory and International Relations at the college level. Most everybody here knows that "liberal"...
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Charli Carpenter at Duck:My quote, attributed to Edmund Burke, read "the only thing necessary for the persistence of evil is for good people to do nothing." It is commonly quoted.