I am so utterly sick of this Third Way shit.

[joshcryer]

145. I'm familiar. It applies to states like the US as well as totalitarian states.

It's basically the Spectacle in action.

The presumption by you and others is that everyone is unfamiliar with the processes that the OP is decrying and anyone who doesn't automatically jump in lock step fawning and agreement must therefore be part of the problem.

No, the problem is the state in and of itself and as long as it exists the problem will exist. There's no getting around it, there's no avoiding it. Those of us who have learned to live within it, of course, are condemned eternally by some ideal that is incapable of existing. I'm reminded of this every single time an FDR fawning thread is produced and I point out inconvenient truths about FDR, which not one person on DU has really challenged. (There was one person, I think it was Manny, actually, but after I pointed out the truths they never refuted me, but that's par for the course.)