There's something happening to the Democratic Party...

[woo me with science]

71. Third Way blase. This seems to be the new approach on discussion boards,

now that much of what is happening to us in this country can no longer be denied. Instead, we get posts like yours attempting to downplay the seriousness of everything that is happening. I saw your Third Way arguments and defense of the bank thieves in this thread, too: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002826853

No, it is not just something to be expected or tolerated, this corporate purchase of our government, endless war, loss of fundamental civil protections, and impoverishment of the masses. Americans DO care if governments and corporations listen to our conversations. The mere fact of having your privacy invaded for no reason by your own government is abuse, all by itself....an egregious abuse...and anyone who argues that no further abuses will grow from that initial abuse shows a shocking disregard for history. We are supposed to have Constitutional protections, barriers to abuses like that.

This bid for passivity and acceptance because "there are always going to be problems" seems the new approach from the Third Way instead of outright denial, now that so many of these creeping outrages can no longer be denied. We are now admonished that they are no big deal...

Of course you favor standardized testing of teachers. And of course you finish by suggesting that just electing Democrats will make everything okay.

It's Third Way optimism!

But the truth is that we are in serious, serious trouble in this country as a result of corporate money in BOTH parties. We are losing our country to corporate bloodsuckers, and we don't have the luxury of being blase about it. Fixing this mess will mean being honest about what our government is doing and honest about our own party's complicity, so that we can FIX It. It means calling out the propaganda, so that we can pull our party back to the traditional democratic values and principles it once stood for.