No, you should have replied. Debate and argument are a good thing. What you shouldn't have done is to try to 'win' by belittleing your opponent. Zachstar never said he was a member of any party, yet you insisted on throwing out a 'Progressive Party' line, and telling him he didn't know what he was. You challenged him to "Google it", and yet a simple look at a dictionary would have told you what he was talking about.
pro·gres·sive /prəˈgrɛs
ɪv/[pruh-gres-iv]
–adjective
1.favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, esp. in political matters:
a progressive mayor.
2.making progress toward better conditions; employing or advocating more enlightened or liberal ideas, new or experimental methods, etc.:
a progressive community.
3.characterized by such progress, or by continuous improvement.
4.(
initial capital letter) of or pertaining to any of the Progressive parties in politics.
5.going forward or onward; passing successively from one member of a series to the next; proceeding step by step.
6.noting or pertaining to a form of taxation in which the rate increases with certain increases in taxable income.
7.of or pertaining to progressive education:
progressive schools.
8.
Grammar. noting a verb aspect or other verb category that indicates action or state going on at a temporal point of reference.
9.
Medicine/Medical. continuously increasing in extent or severity, as a disease.
–noun
10.a person who is progressive or who favors progress or reform, esp. in political matters.
11.(
initial capital letter) a member of a Progressive party.
12.
Grammar. a.the progressive aspect. b.a verb form or construction in the progressive, as
are thinking in
They are thinking about it.
[Origin: 1600–10; [progress + ive]