I always thought this was a fairly "progressive" forum (and still do). In fact I think I recall Mr Nelson himself using the term to contrast with "conservative". Broadly progressive left, liberal-left, or "centrist", etc (perhaps stretching to some easy-going conservatives), encompassing things like tolerance, empathy, science, humane distribution of wealth, etc. As opposed to less tolerant, more authoritarian stances, whether hard-right, militant far-left, or nutty edge of woke spectrum (and it is a wide spectrum).
Maybe it's a semantic thing, and no blame here, but does "progressive" now signify woke, or even fanatically woke, for many of you? That's the impression I get from reading some posts on here lately. If that's the case, it seems like a massive victory for the Paul Dacre or Steve Bannon style of framing, and that seems tragic to me. Let's not turn progressive into a dirty word.
Woke seems more militant and progressive seems more idealistic. Something like the concept of microaggression veers towards thought police that George Orwell, Phillip K. Dick and others wrote about. Progressives are more interested in free thought. I don't think of progressives in connection with cancel culture, cyberbullying and worse.