2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: There is no such thing as a Third Way Progressive. [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,023 posts)Wouldn't this "way" be the 4th or 5th one and by definition a distinct philosophy than the 3rd?
It exists but it sure isn't who the accusation was lobbed at at all.
Who are the people in the party who are most likely to be unfriendly to gay rights?
Who is always blaming and complaining about liberals?
Who is least comfortable with abortion?
Who stands with the Patriot Act?
Who is okay with wireless wiretapping?
Who gets all in a tizzy about dumb ass sex scandals?
Who cut and run on ACORN?
Who is looking at polls to plot their evolution?
Who pushes the stupid and failed Drug War?
Who are the proponents of the education deform movement?
Who is on the back burner the environment/drill, baby, drill bandwagon?
Who dismisses the right wing owning the proprietary voting machines?
Who plays "tough on crime"?
Who has had "very serious questions" about affirmative action or even opposed it over the years?
Who thinks the arts really aren't important?
Who are those people that called people's equal rights "a pony"?
Who kept and in some cases still keep extending every imaginable and some unimaginable benefit of the doubt to the blue gang murdering black people?
Individually maybe overall it wouldn't be fair to assume you have found your socially conservative/fiscally liberal folks but this is where you will find who you are referring to and you know this sure isn't Bernie Sanders nor most of his supporters.
I'm thinking more than anyone admits we may well have some considerable number of plain conservatives just dialed back from the neoBircher set aka not delusional radical regressives and/or open theocrats well you can be even Goldwater/Nixon/Reagan/even Bush right wing and be pretty squirmy in the nut job party for about any number of reasons.
I mean we are talking a party too anti government for any system, even fascism to properly function yet demand a big enough government to monitor every vagina, bedroom, phone call, email, and drop of urine from sea to shining sea. You can be pretty damn conservative and not be able to hang with these idiots. Those people didn't just go poof.
Enough with the convoluted and poorly considered attempt at a smear. Who are the social conservatives? First check with the people who are conservative on everything else and then take a look at the organized religion loving folks.