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In reply to the discussion: Well, fuck me. I thought I was on a DEMOCRATIC forum. [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)I find it is more pragmatic to adopt their beliefs entirely, a sensible approach would be to assimilate nearly all of the serious policy beliefs held by the right and adopt them as our own. That would be a positive effort at bipartisanship that could fully annex even tea party members into the large tent of the modern Democratic party finding a "third way" if you will around the poisonous gridlock that the liberals appear intent on promoting.
It has worked well with welfare reform and free trade in the past, and remember the landmark Democratic health reform we adopted from the Heritage foundation, that right wing sensible proposal is now a Democratic approach to health care.
I propose that we look further into the Heritage Foundation for all of our new policy positions. After all, yesterday's Reagan can be the new Democratic success story.
I like your third way approach Manny, but you are living a few years in the past, it is obvious to all sensible, serious Democrats that this is a good start (http://www.thirdway.org/) but still a bit too far left to take us into 2016.
True courage would take us to battle against all entitlement spending as it is little more than a vicious attack on the money our job creators will need if our trickle down theories are ever to work, trickle down only works if the top gets all the money, not just most of it, keeping our money out of their hands is class warfare on a massive scale.
Time to be courageous enough to become the enemy and defeat them by agreeing with them
DLC Dragonfli