I don't understand why some DU members show support for the FACTS that ...

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305. I agree that the less Dems are like the RW, the better, which is exactly why I oppose Third Wayers

I deplore and grieve what they have done to the Party I love with their RW philosophies, as well as how they chose to do it, from within, like the Kochs chose to have the Tea Party work within the Republican Party. The Kochs donated to the DLC at the same time that Mayer of the New Yorker says they were conceiving of the Tea Party. I cannot help but wonder if the DLC idea inspired their methodology.

I also share your abhorrence of purity tests. By the same token, I also find loyalty oaths, repugnant and also reminiscent of the excesses of the RW, J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, et al. Declared unconstitutional, they were, I think.

I am sorry that you don't like the term Third Wayers. However, I don't know of another term for those who espouse Third Way philosophies whose meaning is unmistakeably. Do you also dislike the terms Blue Dogs, DINOs, etc. (I was replying to a post about DINOs,, who are, IMO, close relatives of Third Wayers, but not necessarily identical, and was noting the existence of a difference between the two, as well as similarities.)

I use to used DLCers, but then the overly literal kept pointing out that the corporation had dissolved,d which I knew--but, sadly, the philosophies had survived the relatively meaningless event (in this context) of technical corporate dissolution.