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Showing Original Post only (View all)What's wrong with 3rd way advocacy? [View all]
3rd way is simply a group of Republicans who don't get along with the tea party. They have enough money to buy the Democratic Party.
You can thank them for "centering" the Democratic Party to the hard right. And, by the way, believing that NSA should spy on your children is most definitely hard right. Believing that Wall Street fraud doesn't need to be prosecuted because "no one got hurt" is definitely hard right. Not just hard right, it's also incredibly fucked up thinking. These are ideas that only dictators and despots endorse.
William K. Black said that "Third Way is this group that pretends sometimes to be center-left but is actually completely a creation of Wall Street--it's run by Wall Street for Wall Street with this false flag operation as if it were a center-left group. It's nothing of the sort."
William Kurt Black (born September 6, 1951) is an American lawyer, academic, author, and a former bank regulator.[1] Black's expertise is in white-collar crime, public finance, regulation, and other topics in law and economics. He developed the concept of "control fraud", in which a business or national executive uses the entity he or she controls as a "weapon" to commit fraud.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Black
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Agree, third way must go. Let them go fuck up the Republican party. We have real work
whereisjustice
Nov 2014
#2
Not a defense. Just pointing out that DU's obsession with Third Way is delusional.
LostInAnomie
Nov 2014
#18
What IS delusional is any denial of the existence of the Third Way, especially since
sabrina 1
Nov 2014
#47
Their own website? Seriously? Look at our start dates. I AM at my own website. nt
msanthrope
Nov 2014
#53
I have not commented on your character. Merely noted that having been here a decade
msanthrope
Nov 2014
#74
Between this, and the "extreme prejudice" thread, I haven't seen this much paranoia
msanthrope
Nov 2014
#89
Yes, everyone you disagree with is a "Third Wayer" and not a real Democrat.
LostInAnomie
Nov 2014
#79
Can't answer that, other than this, for a while, on many Dem forums, they WERE able
sabrina 1
Nov 2014
#85
Look at the makeup of their board of trustees. That will tell you everything you need to know about
Erose999
Nov 2014
#54
Amazing, isn't it? But we have to give credit where it is due. Wall St has been busy
sabrina 1
Nov 2014
#81
Yep remnants of the now dead DLC that had been exposed as a "Koch brothers agent"
cascadiance
Nov 2014
#119
Well the Third Way IS a CABAL OF WALL ST INSIDERS for the most part. See their Board of
sabrina 1
Nov 2014
#80
Sorry DU is "third tier" for you there, bud. I'll have the conciegre send you a fruit basket.
Erose999
Nov 2014
#82
Why else WOULD third way exist? Please tell me more about what exactly this organization does for
Erose999
Nov 2014
#84
I think that IS all the Third Way does, destroy the Dem Party from the inside.
sabrina 1
Nov 2014
#132
I will deny that "the" Third Way exists (note the article). The Joe Liebermann-esque myth of the
Erose999
Nov 2014
#143
Billionaire conservatives funding campaigns and purchasing pro-wall street public policy? 3rd way.
whereisjustice
Nov 2014
#9
Yes, because your continued insistence on lying about what I've said and my positions
Number23
Nov 2014
#102
It blows my mind that they think it does anything other than make them look like fools
Number23
Nov 2014
#111
But who is 3rd Way? Surely not Hillary, why would Bernie Sanders all but admit he
randys1
Nov 2014
#101
Exactly. It is their mechanism to blame everything on Obama and Hillary etc. I just saw a post
still_one
Nov 2014
#126
If there were any daylight between "3rd Way" and "cynical justifications for hypercorporatism"
Man from Pickens
Nov 2014
#8
that and the constant bullying tactics, the reactionary policies, the intent to remove any
MisterP
Nov 2014
#21
I love it when the usual dopes try to act like "Third Way" is an epithet, or some kind of
Marr
Nov 2014
#26
So please, expound upon the many positive traits of the Third Way for us. [n/t]
Maedhros
Nov 2014
#73
Third Way is packed with conservatives who opposed marriage equality until the issue served them
Bluenorthwest
Nov 2014
#43
It's not advocaty of third way that's wrong IT'S THE THIRD WAY THAT IS WRONG!!!!!!
HereSince1628
Nov 2014
#58
This is an old war in the party. Left vs Right. Not as Bad vs Progressives.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Nov 2014
#63