2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: “This is a victory for diplomacy over saber-rattling"- Bernie Sanders on Iran deal [View all]djean111
(14,255 posts)Has nothing to do with war. Has everything to do with the Third Way triangulation thing, and purposely setting social and economic policies against each other, as if we had to make a choice. Or as if they had to make a choice. TPP - Third Way. Read their website. Read the website for the New Democrat Coalition. Third Way economic policies. Embracing the GOP on economic issues. I beieve the NDC even says something like to hell with ideology, we want to work with the GOP.
Just declined to sign a petition thanking Hillary for saying Social Security should be strengthened.
Reminded them that Third Wayers think it should be strengthened by using things like Chained CPI, and Progressives think in terms of raising the cap and increasing payouts. So I said I would wait for the fine print.