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In reply to the discussion: We can do better than Hillary Clinton. [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)It's the social issues that they are "allowed" to go back and forth in different ways on, since those controlling the purse strings of their campaigns don't really care about how they get resolved, only in most cases that they DON'T get resolved, but just serve as a way of drawing votes emotionally to one candidate or another and serve as a distraction from the issues (like the TPP and H-1B Visas of course) that the corporate donors really care about, want to keep quiet so that their money can make sure that the corporatist majority votes for their side all of the time.
You ever hear of someone who's a "moderate" on social issues (goes on either side of them) and takes sides that work more for the American people and less for the corporatists? They hardly exist in politics, even if in the real world, people might love people like that who will try to work negotiating those contentious issues on both sides, and stick to fighting for what most people want in terms of liberty from corporate slavery, etc.
THAT is the problem with what happened when the DLC was started and the Third Way followed. And we keep letting the corporate agendas run our party by giving them so much power over us that is what the Republicans let infest their party more willingly.
I think that's why the Tea Party has been wound up so much on social issues like guns, etc. now (that are also corporate issues in terms of the gun lobbies wanting to sell them), since they corporate lobbies know that they need to keep us at each others throats so that we don't join together in any way to fight off the corporate interests and get something like a citizen's effort for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizen's United or something like that together.
Their corporatist stance consistency is why people like the Koch brothers funded the DLC and have funded a lot of Republican corporatists as well. To keep us moving towards fascism the way they want it. Their family loved working with Joseph Stalin and building up their wealth that way. They don't care so much about ideology as they do about power.