Listen now | David Volodzko speaks with Katherine Brodsky about her book No Apologies: How to Find and Free Your Voice in the Age of Outrage—Lessons for the Silenced Majority.
I think you can reason with a moderate whether they consider themselves independent Republican or Democrat. The people that you can’t reason with are the ones we tend to put the tribal label on which is really the radicals. I consider anyone who’s not moderate to be radical. They tend to be the people that dictate rather than debate. They’re the ones that call you names rather than have a conversation with you. They’re the ones who write you off immediately if you are not following the narrative to the letter. I used to call myself a Progressive not exactly knowing what it was but once I figured out what it was I no longer ever call myself a Progressive again or is I like to say I’m liberal, not leftist. OK. Here in Seattle the Democrat party does not allow any variation from the PMS wing dictates. ( I use PMS wing to describe the progressivist - Marxist - Socialist wing). Once I established a group that I call meet ups for moderates that doesn’t have party lines that invites anybody with moderate sensibilities to come to our social events, it was a game changer. we can have super awesome discussions over dinner and drinks where the whole room is humming with people talking and no one getting mad. We’re all swing voters. We have the policy that we want in our heads and we vote for the people that will enact that policy or sustain that policy. It’s refreshing.
I really like this. I used to call myself progressive too, wrongly, mostly because there were certain ideas I liked, especially around prison reform, for example. Now I'd say liberal, but not in some politically associated way. I believe in liberal values, and I abhor extremism.
really it’s only the people that are on the edge of liberal moving towards the PMS wing that are what’s often called “left liberal” . Those are the only people that aren’t a hybrid of liberal and conservative values, which is what a classical liberal is. It’s not like there’s this line between the left and the right and everybody to the left is liberal and everyone to the right is conservative. It’s just not like that we’re hybrids of one type or another, but we’re definitely not just liberal so when I use the word liberal, I’m always talking about classical liberal.
I think you can reason with a moderate whether they consider themselves independent Republican or Democrat. The people that you can’t reason with are the ones we tend to put the tribal label on which is really the radicals. I consider anyone who’s not moderate to be radical. They tend to be the people that dictate rather than debate. They’re the ones that call you names rather than have a conversation with you. They’re the ones who write you off immediately if you are not following the narrative to the letter. I used to call myself a Progressive not exactly knowing what it was but once I figured out what it was I no longer ever call myself a Progressive again or is I like to say I’m liberal, not leftist. OK. Here in Seattle the Democrat party does not allow any variation from the PMS wing dictates. ( I use PMS wing to describe the progressivist - Marxist - Socialist wing). Once I established a group that I call meet ups for moderates that doesn’t have party lines that invites anybody with moderate sensibilities to come to our social events, it was a game changer. we can have super awesome discussions over dinner and drinks where the whole room is humming with people talking and no one getting mad. We’re all swing voters. We have the policy that we want in our heads and we vote for the people that will enact that policy or sustain that policy. It’s refreshing.
I really like this. I used to call myself progressive too, wrongly, mostly because there were certain ideas I liked, especially around prison reform, for example. Now I'd say liberal, but not in some politically associated way. I believe in liberal values, and I abhor extremism.
really it’s only the people that are on the edge of liberal moving towards the PMS wing that are what’s often called “left liberal” . Those are the only people that aren’t a hybrid of liberal and conservative values, which is what a classical liberal is. It’s not like there’s this line between the left and the right and everybody to the left is liberal and everyone to the right is conservative. It’s just not like that we’re hybrids of one type or another, but we’re definitely not just liberal so when I use the word liberal, I’m always talking about classical liberal.