Uppity Liberals

[LWolf]

182. One thing that the neoliberals have done

is made the terms "liberal" and "progressive" both meaningless.

They promoted the concept of "socially liberal, economically conservative," which was bullshit anyway, because they are economically liberal, not conservative.

By promoting some social liberalism, while also promoting economic policy that devastated most of those social liberalism is supposed to fight for, they got to call themselves "liberals." They still do. They also co-opted the term "progressive." The DLC's think tank, which is still going strong? The Progressive Policy Institute. Progressive in that they are working hard to make progress on their neo-liberal agenda.

America doesn't really have a clear, defined understanding of "liberal," or "progressive," any more. That's why I started calling myself part of "the left," even though I'm not really a leftist. In the U.S., though, it sure as hell looks that way. The neoliberals have worked hard to marginalize the "fringe left," "loony left," etc., and either hold us down under the bus or purge us from the party entirely.

I'm guessing, even though I haven't read any responses in this thread, that there are a bunch lecturing about how "liberal" HRC is. Manipulating that term to manipulate people.

I'll just stick with, for now, the 99%. Liberals, leftists, Democrats, Independents, Republicans, conservatives...the 99% is all-inclusive.

Sanders gets that, and his campaign can use that to pull in votes that aren't going to count for a corporate machine candidate. All while having the best record and positions on issues overall; a record and position on many issues that the Democratic machine has abandoned in favor of selling itself to big corporate $$$.