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In reply to the discussion: In case you were wondering, I AM NOT A FREEPER. [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)That is just an opinion (or lack thereof) that people can agree or disagree with.
Third way is a political philosophy that attempts to consolidate right wing fiscal values and left wing social values in varying forms to achieve what they would describe as a moderate centrist position. Most proponents of this philosophy favor neoliberal positions on free trade, austerity, deregulation, and privatization, a good portion of them tend to be hawks as well but not all.
Third Way politicians are found in Europe as well as here, the ones specifically in the US make most of their views public on the thirdway.org website as well as policy think tanks such as PPI. If one wants to familiarize themselves with specific policy proposals of theirs one need only go to such places or one of their many satellite organizations such as "The New Democrat Coalition" to learn. We may need to start educating such uninformed posters about what these basic (to us) things mean.
I don't understand why anyone would call you that, I have seen your posts for years and would not consider any of your policy views to align with theirs.
Without seeing the post I could only guess that whomever called you that just assumed you were promoting a third way politician rather than reading what you wrote.
IMO the problem is that Hillary is an actual real Third Way politician by all accounts. If that were not true I doubt there would be this much commotion or guilt by association being deployed by such people.