Progressive Values Stories: Michelle on Values or Non-values is Insulting

Edwin:  If you had to ask a question about the term progressive values, what would you ask to find out what it means?

Answer:  I guess, when you say your progressive, what is it about you that makes you progressive. It’s not necessarily specific questions, because I’m not trying to eliminate one other thing, it could be any number of things, a person calling themselves progressive.

Edwin:  How would you define the term progressive values?

Answer:  What does progressive mean to you?  It seems to be different things to different people.  To me, I think the idea behind is we want to keep expanding the net, so we get whose included, whose moving up with the rest of society and who belongs to this larger group.  And the idea is that we are all moving up together, and we are gathering people.

And I think anybody who calls themselves a progressive probably has an idea like that in mind.  It’s just that I guess to me that’s really general, so it doesn’t tell me enough, that I feel like I know a lot.

Some Questions To Ponder:

  - Do you feel insulted by the way Conservatives talk about values and imply only they have values?
  - How should Progressives address this insult?

  -  What is personally the most important progressive value to you?
  -  Do you have a personal story or anecdote of how you learned some insight into this value?
  -  How does this progressive value differ from conservative values?
   - How have Conservative Values Failed?
 

More Progressive Values Stories:

Edwin Rutsch
What Are Progressive Values? Documentary Project
http://ProgressiveSpirit.com 
and Study Group

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