Progressive Values Stories: Zeus Yiamouyiannis on Innovation and

I like to tell people I'm an old-school conservative, with personal responsibility in the sense of honoring traditions, the wisdom that's gone before you -- particularly during the depression era generation -- incredible wisdom around sticking together, in terms of getting by on very little.

And I think these kinds of values help give you a good foundation. If you take the best of the different traditions, a good progressive isn't so much balancing, but integrating. They've been made the opposites, but they ought not be. But by bringing them together, and the thing that makes a progressive distinct from either a liberal or a conservative in my opinion, is their ability to take the wisdom before them, but integrate it and go forward in a new, imaginative and innovative way. That's to me what makes a progressive progressive.