When is DU going to be renamed "Pretty Far to the Right Underground"?

[woo me with science]

67. The Third Way *always* tries to make it about the man rather than the policies,

because the policies are decidedly uncomfortable to discuss.

Most people here voted for the less right-wing of the two corporate candidates we were given. And we got re-election of a President who has supported indefinite detention, "kill lists" and drone wars, pre-emptive war as administration doctrine, spy centers for mining or surveillance of all phone calls and email without a warrant, internet IDs and internet-censoring measures like ACTA and CISPA, military drones in American skies, coordinated violent crackdowns against peaceful protesters, strip searches for any arrestee, bailouts and settlements for corrupt banks, corporate education deform, cutting or "tweaking" Medicare and Social Security, and austerity budgets in an economy that has already impoverished its middle class.

These were mostly the same issues that defined George W. Bush during his presidency. They are not even centrist policies. They are extreme right-wing, corporatist, neocon, and police state policies. And people who came onto the forum supporting these issues during Bush's presidency were shown the door.

We have a serious problem of corporate money flooding our government and our electoral system and driving policy in both parties. There is also a great deal of effort being spent by corporatists to try to convince Democrats that the change in our party comes from the grass roots rather than from a top-down, financed infiltration by corporatists. However, we all witnessed the lie of those claims when the election came and all the candidates pivoted leftward in their rhetoric to win votes.

Anyone who has been at DU over time has witnessed the changes in what is now not only tolerated, but protected here. Wading through the propaganda is now part of the DU experience.