Certainly the two libertarian-voting posters I called out are not referring to being more progressive. I took jhmd's caterwauling over the past about lessons to be learned to mean a move to the right and abandonment of liberal values to appeal to white Midwesterners who lost their jobs, and point to their recent success in state elections as some kind of proof the country is more conservative than we dems think.
You were close, but you don't have to abandon your values. Just try to figure out why independent voters don't believe you to execute on them. Figure out why millions of Obama voters tuned you out.