How to Go From Regressive to Progressive

The so-called "progressive" (who are actually people who are too ashamed to call themselves "liberal") movement has lately stood up for Ahmadinejad and Chavez.

As I said to a commenter here, they are in fact "progressives" in certain circumstances; they've regressed so much by standing up for murderous terrorists and thugs that any positive step would make them a "progressive".

If you have lowered yourself into the fever swamps and sewers that places like Daily Kos and DU have become, any step out is progressive.