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In reply to the discussion: Center-right Democrats finally face a formidable challenge -- and that has them terrified [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) was founded in 1985 by Al From and a group of like-minded politicians and strategists. They advocated a political "Third Way" as a method to achieve the electoral successes of Reaganism by adopting similar economic policies (Reagan Democrats and Moderate Republicans would provide burgeoning new constituencies after adding these new economic policies and politicians to our tent they contended) While hoping to retain, woman, minorities and other social issues allies with long ties to the party. Such would be their new Democratic coalition forged between fiscal right and social left under the "New" Democratic banner.
The term Third Way refers to various political positions which try to reconcile right-wing and left-wing politics by advocating a varying synthesis of right-wing economic and left-wing social policies
The con as it is played by these Republican grifters is simple, be a Republican on all fiscal issues, emulating Reagan and their kindred economic conservative counterparts in the Republican party while selling a thin veneer of socially liberal policies to trick the old constituencies into thinking they are actually Democrats, they believe pro-choice and marriage equality is all they need to claim Democratic membership even tho they are identical to the other Republicans regarding trickle down, cutting social spending and pretty much every other right wing fiscal wet dream, they are even more pro bad trade deals than their brethren in the Republican party that they emulate. Wyldwolf can explain it better, he is an unashamed fan of the third way Reagan dream, a true believer from what I can tell by reading his posts for several years..