Why do Third Wayers hate being called Third Wayers?

[HereSince1628]

143. Yes, I'm saying 'careful', re Third Way/DLC...it emerged from mostly southern conservative

politicians wanting to create a new southern good ol'boy system. One that ostensibly was to replace the club that had nominated NE Liberals (Kennedy and Dukakis), AND one of that gave southern democrats where the economy was improving compared to the increasingly rusting north. Their first really successful move was the creation of the southern Super-Tuesday Primary election.

Being mostly southern conservatives these politicians understood that corporate incentives/welfare had greatly helped move jobs out of 'the old foundry' and into southern states, a process that in the north was called Shipping the Jobs south, and in the south was called southern renaissance and development. Sympathy for tax-breaks and weakness on union/labor rights was what had worked well for southern states in the 15 years prior to the creation of the DLC.

Fund-raising for Clinton was enormously successful (and directed by Rahm Emmanuel) and he won despite cold-shouldering unions.

All things linked to Clintons success came to be "accepted wisdom" more DC Dems climbed on that bandwagon. The cut their solid links to liberal social policies, pursued campaign money from 'non-traditional alternative sources' and used the resulting freedom of political position to move toward positions that won (regardless of party) in the previous election cycle.

This profoundly moved the professional Democrats well to the right of the democratic electorate. It also created the divide that remains between the base ( with respect to labels: the fucking retards) and the knowledgeable professionals (with respect to labels: the turncoat self-invested corporate suck-ups).