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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo you like the TPP, the TPA, the whole process?
Then keep voting Third Way.
Vote for Third Way candidates to run for you in 2016, then trust $$ to take them to the win.
You like the Third Way debating techniques seen in force the past few weeks? Does this process make you feel good, does it remind you of the heady days of 100's of 1000's ecstatically cheering Obama's win for hope and change in 2009? And wow, that was nice. Then vote for your favorite Third Way candidate in 2016 and ensure that we get 8 solid years of continuing pleasure.
Because this is just the beginning, and billions of $$ can buy a lot of loyalty, a lot of exactly what you want.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)djean111
(14,255 posts)Florida Democratic Party wants to decertify the Progressive Caucus just because they favor Grayson over Murphy. Murphy switched parties in 2010 or so, and IMO is still a Republican. So I will not be voting for him. He is a Third Way classic - keeps talking about how very much he wants to work with the GOP (we all know that only brings us watered down GOP crap) and belongs to the New Democrat Coalition or something like that, Debbie Wasserman Schultz organised it, I think. Good ol' Debbie - supported a GOP candidate a few years back because they were friends. Woulda been kicked out of DU for that, but now I am expected to vote for whoever she blesses. Nope.
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)Exactly my thoughts.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)and have no opinion if it is good or bad.
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Our dearly elected by voting machine representatives are the best money can buy. Not only do they all have lots of money, they are rich, and so too, will we be rich, because as the rich go so goes the country, and we all know being trickled down on is really rich.
Not only that but they sure do know how to spin things and that's what makes the world go 'round. If it didn't spin where would you be? Spin's good, and it spreads the trickle out.
Things are good. No, things are great. The incremental changes are good for you, and the spin Obama spun about hope and change was good for you, wasn't it? It got you all excited and got you to vote, and that's a good thing, right?
So, yeah, even as the spinning trickle hasn't even incrementally changed things for the better for 99% of the people, the rich are richer and so they can trickle more. So maybe, just maybe there will be enough trickle you can float a boat one day? Isn't that something to hope for and would be a change? See? It's all good. They know exactly what they are doing to us.
delrem
(9,688 posts)TPP isn't secret, because it doesn't exist until passed, so I want it to be passed ASAP so it can exist and we can begin the debate!
That's the best argument yet!
I've always been peeved that so many dumbasses think arguments need to make at least some sense. What God made that rule, anyway? The new Third Way way of arguing is perfect for me since it releases me from that obligation. And the wingnut "progressives" who don't like it can go eat their peas!
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Really. This idea that once something is crammed down our throats, only then is the time to discuss what's been crammed.
I, too, have never heard of doing such a thing, so that's a real change. Took an Obama to come up with that, eh? Call it an Obamaism?