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Important: Your post misses the point, which is CORRUPTION of democracy.
This will be my last kick to this Third Way talking point thread, but your post needs to be corrected.
We are not talking about "big tents." We are talking about monied corruption of our democracy. The Third Way does not represent a different part of America. The Third Way represents Wall Street. That is the problem we face: the corruption of representative government of The People by corporate money flooding Washington. It is corporations buying policy. The DLC, the Third Way...whatever slimy attempt at rebranding they are using these days....was *never* a grass roots movement. It was a planned and deliberate infiltration of the Democratic Party by Wall Street using corporate money, with the explicit goal of transferring the loyalty of the party from voters to Wall Street donors. We aren't battling other Americans in a healthy democratic process here. The Third Way (and its propaganda machine) is a symptom of the CORRUPTION of our government....its subversion away from a representative system, representation of the interests of the people....into oligarchy, the PURCHASE of supposedly democratic, representative government by a monied elite.
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Posted by woo me with science | Sat May 16, 2015, 11:33 AM (2 replies)
Excellent post you just made. Just look at all those attempts at rebranding.
We all know about the ugly rebranding of the DLC. These manipulators were never a grass roots movement. They have always been a corporate-backed infiltration into the Democratic Party, no matter which name they try to use. Same dirty tricks, same manipulation, same dishonesty, same propaganda machines.
Rebranding is what disreputable corporations do.
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Posted by woo me with science | Sat May 16, 2015, 10:46 AM (3 replies)
Oh, this talking point again: "YOU CALLED ME A DOG!!!!111!11!"
The corporate mouthpieces here are still trying to make "Third Way" into an epithet rather than the useful descriptor of policy positions it actually is. That is what authoritarians do: try to discredit language so as to take away the words we need to describe what is being done to us. YOU CALLED ME A DOG!!!!111!11
(The attempt to discredit the useful terms: "authoritarian" and "Third Way" 
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4713041 ...Authoritarians and the Third Way don't like being called what they are, and since they can't yet prohibit words and restrict others to an approved Newspeak Dictionary, they settle for flailing at and attempting to discredit the individual words they dislike. This tactic...is most amusing in one-to-one settings. When someone uses an accurate word to describe what you are doing or advocating, just put the word in quotation marks, add some exclamation points, and try to neutralize it by pretending it's an epithet instead of an accurate descriptor. We have all seen it here 1,000 times. A person's politics are described as Third Way, and he or she rears up in indignation, expressing shock at the "namecalling." Well, no. "Third Way" means something. It is not an epithet, but rather descriptive shorthand for a clear and specific set of political values and policies. You can see what "Third Way" means by going to the Third Way website, where the goals and policies - liberal on the social issues unimportant to the One Percent but corporate and authoritarian on virtually everything else - are clearly delineated. Those who embrace and defend Third Way policies don't want to admit it, so they try to make the term an epithet...something to be dismissed as namecalling or even banned by a jury so that it can't be accurately applied to them on the forums. And now we are hearing the same sort of defensive attempts to discredit the word when authoritarianism is called "authoritarianism." Of course "authoritarian" means something. Brazen defense of a government's spying on its own citizens is indisputably authoritarian. I always picture an indignant poodle rearing up in outrage and exclaiming, "What?! You called me a DOG?!" Orwell was right. Defending against authoritarianism *requires* defending language, because authoritarians will try to twist, discredit, or take away the words that are necessary for us to describe what is being done to us. [font color=red]Reject, do not engage, Third Way talking points. [/font color]
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5767160 Going to threads about important issues like the TPP and the looming renewal of the Patriot Act now, rather than kicking these stale Third Way talking points. |
Posted by woo me with science | Sat May 16, 2015, 10:36 AM (7 replies)
Note our corrupt corporate Dems took the time to *pretend* they opposed it first.
Posted by woo me with science | Wed May 13, 2015, 06:59 PM (3 replies)
The "Justice" Department asks them not to commit crimes...but just for two years.
Posted by woo me with science | Tue May 12, 2015, 08:51 PM (1 replies)
Cali, thank you for staying on this.
Posted by woo me with science | Tue May 12, 2015, 06:30 PM (1 replies)
Reminders of what this corporate administration has fought for:
Attributing this corporate administration's assaults on ordinary Americans to political helplessness and obstructionism is a transparent Third Way lie.
 
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Posted by woo me with science | Mon May 11, 2015, 07:57 AM (0 replies)
This belongs on the Greatest Page. Actually, it should be pinned to the top of the board
Posted by woo me with science | Sun May 10, 2015, 11:05 PM (1 replies)
"Incremental change" is a Third Way lie.
Posted by woo me with science | Sun May 10, 2015, 09:35 PM (161 replies)
