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(32,139 posts)to which the Third Way always resorts when opposition to the Third Way predatory policy agenda can't be refuted. It boils down to, "Haters! Republican haters!"
That post is as vapid as the OP. It offers as a ludicrous article of faith that politicians can simultaneously pursue policies that *disproportionately* crush vulnerable groups within the 99 percent *and* hold themselves out as the stalwart defenders of rights for those groups.
What utter tripe. And followed, predictably, by the most absurd type of namecalling possible in this context: accusing those who sound the alarm about Republican policies of being secret Republicans.
You can't make this stuff up.
It reminds me of the very first time a pro-corporate poster here tried to label me as a secret Republican. What made it hilarious was that the accusation came after I had posted an article specifically criticizing Obama for continuing so many BUSH policies.
The title, the entire thrust of the article, decried his entrenchment and expansion of the BUSH agenda.
I nearly died laughing. I thought I had run across some delusional poster who didn't understand what "right-wing" meant, or who Bush was.
Later, of course, I realized that this is a Third Way talking point, like all the others that deal in utter absurdity: for example, trying to pretend that the agenda Hillary represents is not right wing itself, or that opposing it is even remotely "Right Wing."
Face it. You have no response whatsoever to the bald truth, which is that Hillary represents an agenda of predatory corporatism that harms all human beings, but that savages vulnerable and minority groups most of all. You are left with absurd attempts to pretend that a process of greater empowerment of marginalized groups can or has *EVER* happened in nations that also take a deliberate path of dismantling democracy, growing authoritarian rule, and skyrocketing inequality.