2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The one thing that will stop Bernie Sanders.....his supporters [View all]R B Garr
(16,914 posts)"Neoliberal" Third way is indeed name calling. But calling someone from 30 years ago a corporatist really gives you away as being the propagandist and a snide way to say trickle-down. Thirty years ago, the Yuppies were all the rage, and no one would have dared to say that about corporations, so it's just false to apply current standards to past events and trends. The name-calling is all about current talking points (very current, actually). The fact you bring up Ross Perot doesn't mean you "got" anything, it just means you fell for gimmicky talk, as well. It was Clinton who was elected, not the Independent. That's what I'm talking about regarding the fringes.
Like I said, look what was promoted during past campaigns, and that's what was reality. Sure, now you can go back and see how the predicted trends went wrong, but that's revisionist history.
Back to what I said before, liberal was a dirty word, so they devised other names for the Democratic party and they were not considered evil monikers back then. To suggest they were is just retro propaganda.
This is now just repetitive. My main point is that some like you who were already too pure to vote for Clinton in 1992 are on the fringes of the party. REALITY was that the party just wanted to win after 12 years of Republicans. That's the reality.