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bvar22

(39,909 posts)
7. Third Way Clintonism,
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 06:39 PM
Apr 2016

or as Obama puts it, "Republican Policies from the 80s", is NOT why I joined the Democratic
Party over 50 years ago. I FOUGHT hard AGAINST "Moderate Republican Policies" in the 80s, and I'm not going to timidly start supporting these same policies now.

"The Era of Big Government is OVER"---Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and paraphrased by Grover Norquist.

--bvar22
a mainstream-center FDR/LBJ loyal DEMOCRAT for over 55 years who is NOW labeled a "Far Leftist" in the 3rd Way Clinton Party.
I haven't changed. What passes for the Democratic Party today has changed.



[font color=firebrick][center]"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want a party that will STAND UP for Working Americans."
---Paul Wellstone [/font]
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Shortly before Sen Wellstone was killed[/center]
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