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In reply to the discussion: President Obama's Disingenuous Attack on Outsourcing [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)It was from the start a top-down infiltration planned and bankrolled by corporations.
It is no accident that Third Way types reliably defend job-killing free trade agreements, indefinite detention, warrantless surveillance, attacks on Occupy, bank bailouts and settlements, austerity budgets, drone wars, etc., etc., etc.
It is a wholly corporate-Republican-neocon agenda, minus the religious trimmings.
It is also thoroughly corporate in its use of disingenuous advertising techniques. You always see bright, shiny packaging and progressive messages....but you can only claim to support one set of values while vociferously backing policies that are diametrically opposed to them for so long...
That is why Third Way propagandists are *always* reduced to techniques of personal attack and diversion from actual policies. Anything to avoid shining a light on the vicious gap between their policies and what they claim to stand for...