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peoli

(3,111 posts)
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 10:45 AM Feb 2020

Centrist Third Way, Funded by Corporate Interests, Attacks Sanders in Iowa

Democratic "centrists" funded by corporate interests have issued "a warning" to Iowa caucus goers against voting for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Iowa will be the first state to vote in the 2020 primaries and holds its caucuses on Monday.

Third Way, a centrist think tank funded by corporations and trade groups in the electronics, fossil fuel utility, pharmaceutical, tech, and telecom industries, sent out a memo to Iowa Democrats yesterday, alleging that Sanders is "the easiest target for Trump to beat."

Financed by the likes of pharmaceutical giant Amgen, pharmacy benefit manager CVS Health, which acquired Health Insurance giant Aetna in late 2018, and health products and drug company Baxter International, Third Way claims that Sanders's Medicare for All plan, which would allow the government to negotiate down drug prices and would eliminate private health insurance, "is the only way Democrats can lose to Trump on health care."

https://www.prwatch.org/news/2020/01/13535/centrist-third-way-funded-corporate-interests-attacks-sanders-iowa

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Centrist Third Way, Funded by Corporate Interests, Attacks Sanders in Iowa (Original Post) peoli Feb 2020 OP
Health Insurance For Everyone Is Crazy DanieRains Feb 2020 #1
Good Loki Liesmith Feb 2020 #2
PR Watch is very shy about citing sources. beastie boy Feb 2020 #3
It's a convenient straw man redstateblues Feb 2020 #4
Extreme left? peoli Feb 2020 #5
Yes, extreme left. beastie boy Feb 2020 #9
What policies are extreme in the extreme left? peoli Feb 2020 #11
So what? There are HUNDREDS of political think tanks out Hortensis Feb 2020 #6
Third Way, Third Way, Third Way!!11 mcar Feb 2020 #7
? peoli Feb 2020 #8
So has Third Way replaced the dreaded neo-liberal bogeyman comradebillyboy Feb 2020 #10
 

DanieRains

(4,619 posts)
1. Health Insurance For Everyone Is Crazy
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 11:04 AM
Feb 2020

Lets stick with lottery care, and bankruptcy care.

It works great.

For the 1%.

The only ones that matter....

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beastie boy

(9,059 posts)
3. PR Watch is very shy about citing sources.
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 11:27 AM
Feb 2020

Other than providing a table with names and numbers which PR Way attributes, but not confirms with a link, to Center for Public Accountability, the only other detail about the Third Way funding they provide is "The sources of most of Third Way's funding are unknown, but voluntary disclosures by certain corporations and trade associations provide a window into the group's backers."

So we have a pretty fuzzy "window" into the Third Way funding sources, and based on thos "window" the article unequivocably states, in big bold typeface, "Centrist Third Way, Funded by Corporate Interests, Attacks Sanders in Iowa".

Meanwhile, I don't see anything in the article, other than vitriolic demagoguery, that disputes any of the Third Way findings.

BTW, the size of the Third Way staff is about 50 people. (https://onthinktanks.org/think-tank/third-way/) While it serves as a useful boogie man for the extreme left, it is otherwise pretty irrelevant. Keep this in mind when you try to lump centrist Democrats with Third Way.

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redstateblues

(10,565 posts)
4. It's a convenient straw man
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 11:45 AM
Feb 2020
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beastie boy

(9,059 posts)
9. Yes, extreme left.
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 01:23 PM
Feb 2020

American extreme left, to be more accurate. Not to be confused with the North Korean extreme left, obviously.

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peoli

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11. What policies are extreme in the extreme left?
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 02:11 PM
Feb 2020
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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. So what? There are HUNDREDS of political think tanks out
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:08 PM
Feb 2020

there, most of them speaking out for and against according to their ideology. Third Way is not even a powerful one either.

They had their brief heyday in the 1990s when (Democratic) voters were replacing Democrats with Republicans in hundreds of offices around the nation and it was thought that becoming more representative of the current voter mood was...you know, not just principled and representative but also necessary to keep an increasingly extremist RW from taking over.

But these days, shouting their name as if this group is a power is an anti-Democratic Party dog whistle. Oh, and

BERNIE SANDERS HAS VOTED DEMOCRATIC 95-99% EACH YEAR SINCE COMING TO DC. If his Democratic colleagues are centrist, SO IS HE.

Stupid and obviously wrong?

Right.
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mcar

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7. Third Way, Third Way, Third Way!!11
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:14 PM
Feb 2020
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comradebillyboy

(10,119 posts)
10. So has Third Way replaced the dreaded neo-liberal bogeyman
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 01:40 PM
Feb 2020

this year?

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