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In reply to the discussion: Our future is center-left not far-left. The business community and DLC, not OWS [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)179. More so than FDR, but less than JFK, Carter, Clinton & Obama.
With Carter, there was at least an attempt to shed the "Cold War Liberal" label, which LBJ embraced.
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BrentWil
Dec 2012
OP
corporate America has spent the past few decades making sure they make more
liberal_at_heart
Dec 2012
#12
the "business community" will save tons of $ if we go to universal health care...
msongs
Dec 2012
#2
some would, but they'll save just as much if they, like walmart, pay their employees welfare wages
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#17
I have always thought the government is the way to solve this in a modern economy
BrentWil
Dec 2012
#122
Well, then, ket the business community needs to think more about what allows them to
kelliekat44
Dec 2012
#4
It has to regulate business to keep it from destroying itself, devouring true productivity and...
freshwest
Dec 2012
#200
Jesus Christ, but Juror #4 makes me question the universal franchise. If you're going
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#44
No one wants the business community to fail. Just a return to ethics & morals in business.
JaneyVee
Dec 2012
#7
Take your cheap Third Way corporatist propaganda and stick it where the sun don't shine.
Zorra
Dec 2012
#9
the current economic model is not sustainable and cannot possibly sustainably provide a western
Douglas Carpenter
Dec 2012
#20
OWS didn't fail because they were radical and anti-business, they failed because they were a joke
Azathoth
Dec 2012
#24
OWS failed? Really? What criterion\criteria are you using to assess success or
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#45
I'd call giving emergency response training in NY to the same people who peppersprayed them--
eridani
Dec 2012
#52
Fox news says OWS is dead. Sigh...and the problems we discuss still have not been addressed.
Fire Walk With Me
Dec 2012
#27
False equivalencies, lies, and more pointless shit stirring. What a shock. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#38
I so hope that shit stirring will one day become a legitimate business model.
Democracyinkind
Dec 2012
#41
The business community should be us, the workers, and not a handful of robber barons... nt
Comrade_McKenzie
Dec 2012
#60
What you call "So-called normal systems" are far fairer to their citizens and their economy.
HughBeaumont
Dec 2012
#98
You obviously either know nothing about OWS or are poking fun. OWS is =non-partisan=
Fire Walk With Me
Dec 2012
#170
"The business world" needs to stop usurping political power and undermining the country.
eShirl
Dec 2012
#83
If you're standing up for fairness and equality of opportunity, we've got your back. #OWS
Fire Walk With Me
Dec 2012
#88
Dear OP, still waiting to hear all about the Thrid Way Moderate's program to help
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2012
#91
The DLC didn't change its name; it disbanded around the same time the RLC did.
NYC Liberal
Dec 2012
#114
OWS isn't Far Left. It includes the Far Left. You've heard of Horizontal Empowerment? nt
patrice
Dec 2012
#130
If you insist on spouting that shit could you at least throw a picture of
TheKentuckian
Dec 2012
#167
No, the labor movements are the "natural organizations to work with" for progressives.
David__77
Dec 2012
#169