Re: The DLC/Third Way/Corporatist "Open Mind Meme" [View All]

[Zorra]

We see it over and over again.

This is the message. It has many variants, but the underlying message is always the same:

If you believe contrary to the corporatist drivel that we spout in order to try to convince you to abandon your traditional Democratic values, propaganda that is specifically fabricated for the purpose of moving the Democratic Party to the right and make it more like the republican party, then you do not have an open mind.

Oh, golly gee, how thoughtless of us, please forgive us Democrats for not listening to your thinly veiled, childish GOP junior varsity cheerleader slogans.

Third Way aims for front and center
11/2/10 4:07 AM EDT

The long-simmering battle between moderates and liberals for the soul of the Democratic Party is about to explode.
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That presents a golden opportunity for Third Way, a five-year-old think tank that remains largely unknown outside the Beltway.
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In addition, the group’s fellows and policy advisers will start rolling out memos and studies that offer a framework for how Democrats could reach common ground with Republicans. The economic team is developing a proposal that it thinks could win bipartisan support. It includes tort reform and incentives for research and development. And Cowan’s writing a paper with a colleague about “the danger of left-wing economic populism.”
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Cowan’s group wants to play a role in 2011 akin to the Democratic Leadership Council’s in 1995. Then, the last time Democrats lost the House, President Bill Clinton’s willingness to “triangulate” between traditional Democratic orthodoxies and the Republicans who controlled Congress led to welfare reform, community policing and a slew of smaller accomplishments that helped propel Clinton to a second term.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44523.html#ixzz1STfCb1CN
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The Third Way is the conservative corporatist cesspool where the the bulk of the slimy anti-Democratic party talking points are coming from. Doing the work of the GOP for them.

The Third Way is clearly, in reality, a third party dedicated to eliminating the progressive ideologies of the Democratic Party, and should be treated as such.

"See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."
George Walker Bush

What the Third Way does:


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