And your continuing fantasy that you, as a liberal, are somehow better than those who call themselves Progressives.

Conservatives have been largely successful in their effort to rebrand the word "liberal" to mean weak, effete, soft on crime, and soft on communism. John Lukacs, in his 2004 essay "The Triumph and Collapse of Liberalism", observed a change in the political usage of the term "liberal" from the 1950s onward asserting that the word "liberal" "has become a Bad Word for millions of Americans."[53]
The use of pejorative terms such as "bleeding-heart liberal", "tax-and-spend liberal", "cut-and-run liberal", "Massachusetts liberal", "limousine liberal", and "liberal elite" became a common political tactic.[54]
For example, Republican political consultant Arthur J. Finkelstein was known to repeat the word "liberal" in negative television commercials as frequently as possible:
"That's liberal. That's Jack Reed. That's wrong. Call liberal Jack Reed and tell him his record on welfare is just too liberal for you."[55]
Many politicians began to shy away from the "liberal" label, preferring terms such as "progressive" or "moderate."

WiKi

Flaming Liberal, Bleeding Heart Liberal, and other derogatory terms for liberals have been around for some time. I would imagine that the term Progressive which represents the same group as Liberals, came into popularity during the war as a strategy to uproot the GOP.

Less ammo, as by 2006 the word had so many negative connotations that no liberal could run without being called effete during time of war.

Remember the Kerry, Gore attacks? Those were attacks based on the connotations of liberal.

How about:

Jondee is stalking me?