Kucinich: We are Not Exiting Afghanistan. We are Staying.

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70. Stuff like the opinions at this link is interesting.

http://www.myleftwing.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=17649

The perversion of the whole "big tent" meme is a device used by 1% sponsored RWers to make it acceptable for them to infiltrate and corrupt the Dem party with their RW ideology, and thereby render the Dem party largely ineffective as an opposition to the 1% and the GOP.

The purity test is not expressing, and or acting in accordance with, RW ideas and RW ideology, particularly those of the republican party. An example of those failing the purity test would be those who have adopted the ideas of Ronald Reagan. When you become your enemy, game over, they won.

The term Third Way refers to various political positions which try to reconcile right-wing and left-wing politics by advocating a varying synthesis of right-wing economic and left-wing social policies.[1] Third Way was created as a serious re-evaluation of political policies within various centre-left progressive movements in response to the ramifications of the collapse of international belief in the economic viability of the state economic interventionist policies that had previously been popularized by Keynesianism; and the corresponding rise of popularity for neoliberalism and the New Right.[2] It supports the pursuit of greater egalitarianism in society through action to increase the distribution of skills, capacities, and productive endowments, while rejecting income redistribution as the means to achieve this.[3] It emphasizes commitment to: balanced budgets, providing equal opportunity combined with an emphasis on personal responsibility, decentralization of government power to the lowest level possible, encouragement of public-private partnerships, improving labour supply, investment in human development, protection of social capital, and protection of the environment.[4]

The term was later used by politicians in the 1990s who wished to incorporate Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan's projects of economic deregulation, privatization, and globalization into the mainstream centre-left political parties.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Way_%28centrism%29

The purity test was devised by everyone that ever wanted the Democratic Party to act as a unified body for the purpose of bringing into being, and then preserving, a nation based on justice, equality, compassion, and freedom.

Yeah, that's my purity test. Deal with it. I have absolutely no use whatsoever for any RW ideologies or those that corrupt the Democratic Party with them, and I make no apologies.

As for Ms. Huffington and Cenk, I don't have enough information about them to have an adequately informed opinion. But from what I have gleaned from listening to him on the radio, it appears to me that Cenk is for real.

I'm not buying Moulitsas.

What you refer to as the "Kucinich" wing of the Party is the very same thing as the traditional FDR wing of the Democratic Party.

The traditional wing of the Democratic Party supports the interests of the 99% over those of the 1%. This wing of the Party believes that people are more important than the profit making abilities and other interests of the 1%.

The Third Way supports the interests of the 1% over those of the 99%. This party, (some may call it a wing of the Democratic Party), like the GOP, believes that the profit making abilities and other interests of the 1% take precedence over the interests and needs of human beings.

By placing profit over people, all pretensions of being socially Democratic are rendered moot. Profit will always take precedence over the needs of the 99%, despite the duplicitous pleas and reassurances of the impostor Third Way that serves the 1%, and the majority of people will continue to suffer and become more powerless as the power of the 1% continues to grow.

Fuck all republicans, I mean it, fuck every one of them, including the ones pretending to be Democrats. And fuck their greed driven anti-human ideas, ideology, and actions as well.

Have a nice day.