2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Rise Of Bernie Sanders And The PANIC Of The Third Way Democratic Centrists [View all]Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)any more than there is any such thing as a married bachelor. The term is an oxymoron.
What the Third Way (DLC/New Democrats) do is try to merge trickle down or supply-side economics, which is a colossal failure from the Reagan administration, with tradition Democratic concepts of social justice for racial minorities, women and sexual minorities. There is no way that one can have social equality or social justice while giving special privileges for artificial persons and the billionaires behind them, which has evolved to mean the right of banks to rob their costumers and the right of industrial polluters to trash the planet and pass the costs of cleaning up their mess on directly to the public sector. It doesn't work.
It also means that corporate interests have the right to aggressively suppress their employees who seek higher wages and better working conditions. There is no social justice in that. That kind of social injustice is a direct result of economic injustice. Whether you believe it or not that means that you and I will be together in the same leaky boat.