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Showing Original Post only (View all)I'm not a NEW DEMOCRAT-are you? Some history about the NEW DEMOCRATS is needed. [View all]
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The NEW DEMOCRAT movement began as a reaction to the election of Ronald Reagan. The majority of the NEW DEMOCRATS leadership and policies came out of the Democratic Leadership Council/DLC. Below are a couple of informative links about the DLC.
Democratic Leadership Council (RightWeb entry)
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Democratic_Leadership_Council
Source Watch DLC page
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Democratic_Leadership_Council
Interesting how much of the corporate and other funding and support for the NEW DEMOCRATS comes from many of the same RW sources that have supported the worst of the worst in the American political arena (Koch Industries, Bradley Foundation, Raytheon, Merck, DuPont, ARCO, Phillip Morris, Microsoft etc.).
Policies of the NEW DEMOCRATS came from people like Al From, Bruce N. Reed, Will Marshall, Joseph Lieberman, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jennifer Mann, Harold Ford Jr., Gary Hart and their support networks.
Below is the Wikipedia page on the NEW DEMOCRAT COALITION
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Democrat_Coalition
I'm not a NEW DEMOCRAT, are you?