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In reply to the discussion: Do you consider President Obama to be a "Third Wayer"? [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)Third Wayers started is "progressive". This group is known to use semantic terms to try and appeal to those who might be attracted to them in to thinking the organization's objectives are somehow a "third way" to what is going on in Washington that people want, but what this organization DOES NOT REPRESENT, or that this group that they started is "progressive" the way people want a group to be which also it is not!
It is typical the way corporate owned Washington now is using words like these phrases and "far left" to warp the discussion by trying to make their application meaningless by applying them to entities that aren't really what most people have wanted these terms to be applied to.
The term "centrist" has also been abused as well, where a better term for these sets of individuals are "corporatist", since many of them might be flexible and negotiable on social issues, but are pretty rigid in supporting the narrow minority of corporate elites on top on certain financial and control issues that affect the elite's power. Then they are anything BUT "centrist" in what most people think of the definition of that word.