"Incremental change" is a Third Way lie. [View all]

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See this thread by WillyT:

JFK: What it means to be Liberal
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6652893

In JFK's own words:

[font size=3]"Our responsibility is not discharged by announcement of virtuous ends. Our responsibility is to achieve these objectives with social invention, with political skill, and executive vigor."[/font size]

Empty Third Way claims to care about the 99 percent, while bleating lies about "incrementalism" and fellating the One Percent...

That con game does not fly anymore.




The endless Third Way lecturing to be patient and trust "incremental change" is a rhetorical con game. It is a bid to believe a flat-out lie: that corporate politicians have the same goals we do but are merely moving toward them more slowly and pragmatically.

It is a lie. Third Way politicians and their propaganda mouthpieces do not have the same goals as traditional liberals. They work for Wall Street and corporations, and their purpose is to use slick advertising and manipulation to sell you a product that will increase their own power and profit.

To claim that progress is being made but is merely incremental is overwhelmingly untrue in the most important areas of policy. We are being thrown bones on social issues but inequality has been escalated viciously through policy, the power of corporations is being relentlessly increased, our fundamental civil liberties are being dismantled, journalism is under assault, peaceful protesters are being surveilled and brutally suppressed, whistleblowers are being persecuted, our president has claimed the right to imprison indefinitely and even kill without due process, militarization of our police forces has been expanded, our public education system is being corporatized and even dismantled, corporate power over the internet has still not been denied, and our environment is being opened to drilling and fracking. In addition to all this, this government is engaging in mass surveillance against its own citizens and assaulting us with propaganda and disinformation.

Corporatists have been installed in virtually every area of government by our Democratic president.

The most significant policy proposal on the horizon is the most predatory free trade agreement in history, which will force Americans to compete with workers in Third World countries. It will kill jobs, reduce wages for over 90 percent of American workers, restrict freedom on the internet, make obtaining life-saving medications more difficult and more expensive, and allow multinational corporations to sue for profits and overrule national decisions on everything from wages to regulations for environment and safety. It is an assault on all of us, and it is unconscionable coming from a Democratic president. However, it is wholly consistent with this administration's long record of working on behalf of corporate interests.

Nothing is fixed unless we are honest about what is happening. All the propaganda notwithstanding, more and more courageous liberals are standing up to do just that. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Robert Reich....the launch of FirstLook....Bill Moyers' excellent work....These are all positive signs.

People who care deeply about this country are telling the truth about what we really are facing...the corporate hijacking of our party and our government....because the rose-colored glasses are malignant. The rose-colored glasses are a corporate lie, and they prevent real change.