NEITHER ONE IS A 4-LETTER WORD

Count them.  L-I-B-E-R-A-L  Seven letters.  P-R-O-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E.  Eleven letters.

I've been holding on to this post-2012-election column by Tim Egan  in The New York Times on "A Liberal Moment" for a while now.  (Since Nov. 29, obviously....)

It's too long to put here.
It's too inclusive to edit for the sake of brevity.

So here it is.  Go there yourself.  It's instructive.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/29/a-liberal-moment/?nl=opinion&emc=edit_ty_20121130

THEN, there's a fascinating list of 102 no-nos if you're big on not paying taxes and not using things that are supported by taxes:
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/22/102-things-not-to-do/