"Centrist" is a term that keeps being redefined. n/t

[Odoreida]

[NurseJackie]

1. Really? How so?

[squirecam]

3. Like socialist perhaps?

Nt

[NurseJackie]

7. Ha!

[LexVegas]

2. Yeah...like it used to be a pro-gun guy. Now thats a socialist.

[Squinch]

4. So is "American Democracy" a term that keeps being redefined. And not in a good way.

Pretty soon, that will be moot though if we let Filthy Donnie get elected again

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Clearly, it's anybody who isn't Bernie.

Everyone else is a running-dog revanchist bourgeois tool of the corporate oligarchy.

[NurseJackie]

8. Boom!

[squirecam]

9. Lol

Nt

[CowboyProgressive]

6. I like the term Corporate Democrats. Because that's who they're policy represent.

Progressive democrats. Liberal democrats. And corporate democrats. Centristism’ is own thing.

[Steven Maurer]

10. People who who like that term like it because it's a meaningless insult...

...signifying an outgroup to the Sanders wing. Not because it describes any actual position they supposedly hold.

[SharonClark]

13. Well said.

[treestar]

14. +1

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. That still doesn't make any sense.

Is that the same as a corporeal Democrat, which I assume all of us are? If I own stock in a corporation am I a corporate Democrat? Is it OK if that stock is in my 401K or retirement portfolio or does owning those things make me a corporate Democrat? If I work for a corporation am I one? I used to work for a Fortune 500 corporation (and owned stock in it), but I also was once self-employed and before that I worked for the government, so has my corporateness varied throughout my life? Would I have to be a CEO to be a corporate Democrat, and if so, how big would the corporation have to be? I can file some paperwork with the Secretary of State, pay $120 and voila, I'm the CEO of a very tiny corporation. Am I therefore a corporate Democrat? Or would my corporation have to be listed on the NYSE or NASDQ?

Are all corporations bad? Would you abolish them? Which policies of Democrats "represent" corporations? All corporations or just large ones? How large? Both Exxon and Joe's Bait & Tackle, or just Exxon? Why? How?

"Corporate Democrat" is just as meaningless as "centrist Democrat." Either you can articulate why you don't agree with a particular candidate's policies or you can't, and if you can't it's a whole lot easier to just slap a name on them that you think is insulting.

[squirecam]

12. Yep

Nt

[SharonClark]

15. Please don't confuse people with meaningful questions.

Their heads may explode.

[betsuni]

17. +1

[krissey]

16. Since it has been proven out Sanders is establishment he has stopped using that term and now

uses centralist to attack our Democratic candidates.

[David__77]

18. It's a term, like "far left."

Shorthand for something, which differs depending on perspective.