Populist Reform of the Democratic Party
In reply to the discussion: The Third Way: 'Why are Democrats affiliated with this group that wants to gut Democratic Programs?' [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)And yes, they would do as well in the Republican Party. They are moderate Republicans, Reagan Republicans.
Their Board consists of mostly Investment Bankers. Their goal is to drag the Democratic Party to the right.
The whole idea of the 'center' is from this Think Tank. And the lie that this country is a Center Right country, so Dems MUST move to the Right, is a Third Way lie. All polls show that nothing could be further from the truth.
Deregulation was their goal, just like Republicans.
However, so long as the Dem Party remained the party of FDR, they would not go along with these Republican policies.
So for Wall St, it became necessary, since they already owned the Republican Party, to gain power in the Democratic Party in order to accomplish the goals of deregulation, of the media, mission accomplished, and to get rid of Glass Steagal, mission also accomplished.
On Foreign Policy, they are for forever war.
On SS, they are for privatization.
'Big Tent' is their excuse for their presence in the Dem Party.
The voters have finally caught on and in the last two mid terms, have refused to elect, and/or re-elect their Corporate funded candidates.
The Big Tent was not intended for Right Wingers. Its meaning is, that unlike the Republicans, Dems would welcome minorities including women, who were not welcome in the Republican Party.
Dems were originally, until the infiltration of the Third Way, originally the DLC, the Party of the Working Class.
They needed only approx half the Dem Party to further the agenda of the Heritage Foundation, privatization, deregulation, etc, and it appears they accomplished that simply by slapping a D after the names of their deeply funded candidates.
The word 'purge' is one of their attempts to characterize the idea that Republicans have their own party where they belong, as something nefarious. Fortunately all their talking points are no longer very effective.
We have the results of their presence in the Dem Party and voters are rejecting them and their Wall St/Republican policies which have so harmed the Working Class and the poor.
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