Meet the 3rd Way Board of Trustees

[FreakinDJ]

[Thinkingabout]

1. AND?

[99th_Monkey]

11. AND, you seriously believe Hillary's going to "get tough on Wall St."?

I think that's the point of the OP.

[FreakinDJ]

15. 3rd Way is backing Clinton

Both financially and in the media

But the centrist Democratic think tank Third Way rejects the idea that all benefits can be preserved without big tax increases on the wealthy and middle class. It says the Sanders proposal would give more benefits to wealthy individuals than to the poor.

“Right now, Clinton is being safe,” Third Way co-founder Matt Bennett wrote in an email. “She’s avoided signing on to the ridiculous Sanders scheme to raise benefits for all — an idea that is a pipe dream and provides 5 times more benefit to the rich than to the poor.”

Nancy Altman, founding co-director of Social Security Works, wrote last month in a HuffPost Politics blog that it’s “preposterous” to say that Sanders would be “coddling the rich.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/02/09/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-differ-details-social-security-plans/80078816/

[Thinkingabout]

16. It does not make this group bad just because they back Hillary, this is a group of

thinkers to determine how to best help Democrats to gain, this is a very important point to me as a Democrat, maybe not others. If you research these group you might find they are on the side of maintaining SS and Medicare along with other issues.

[FreakinDJ]

17. I guess you missed the memo - 3rd Way wants to dismantle Social Security

Wall Street Uses the Third Way to Lead Its Assault on Social Security

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511300370

And their board of Trustees has been donating HEAVILY to Hillary Clinton

Bernard L. Schwartz

$1.0 million

Chairman and chief executive of BLS Investments.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/top-presidential-donors-campaign-money.html

[Thinkingabout]

18. Maybe you should provide a link from the group giving their plan on SS.

[brooklynite]

19. Here ya go...

http://thirdway.org/issue/economy

Unlike someone who just rehashes an opinion piece from a left-wing group, I've actually met with them.

[Thinkingabout]

20. Yes, I have read the Third Way information and am familiar with their

SS plan and in fact it is some of the same as Hillary and Sanders have in their agenda, there seems to be some confusion as to the Thirdway Agenda. Below is information from the link you provided.

We proposed our own Social Security fix plan that combined tax increases on upper income earners with benefit cuts on well-to-do seniors and benefit increases to poor seniors. We first proposed then brought Democrats and Republicans together on a Social Security Commission plan that remains the only bipartisan legislation to fix Social Security.

[Matariki]

21. "Group of thinkers"

Thinking about their 5th yacht maybe.

[Thinkingabout]

22. Where did you hear this, link please.

[Matariki]

23. You on autopilot?

[Thinkingabout]

24. Can't explain your remark?

[Hoyt]

2. Is Clinton a board member of 3rd Way? Any evidence, other than speculation, she is a supporter of

Third Way?

[berniepdx420]

5. It's common knowledge the 1st Clinton Presidency help solidify the 3rd way in American politics..

[Hoyt]

9. Common knowledge among whom -- Sanders's supporters?

[99th_Monkey]

14. Uhh. You may want to google "Third Way Democrats, Clintons"

The record is crystal clear on this. How can you suggest otherwise?

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Third+Way+Democrats,+Clintons&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

[seaotter]

3. Hillary's handlers, it seems.

Release the transcripts!

It is these connections that make it impossible for Hillary too move , in any meaningful way, here very high negative numbers. Unless she can, she will lose the general election.

[leftofcool]

4. And?

You do realize that 90% of Democrats have no idea who these people are and don't care?

[amborin]

6. so she relies on lo info voters, you're saying? makes sense

[noretreatnosurrender]

7. Sad

It's so sad to see Thurgood Marshall, Jr. practicing corporate law. I feel like I've fallen through the looking glass.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. Worse, he's on the board of Corrections Corp of America, for profit prisons....

https://www.cca.com/board-of-directors

[JRLeft]

10. Everyone on that board is a Hillary supporter I wonder why.

[Dem2]

12. Never heard of any of them.

Know why? Cuz nobody gives a flying f*** about the 3rd Way.

[brooklynite]

25. If THIRD WAY bothers you, why not set up a think tank to develop progressive policies?

...and I don't mean online petitioning groups like DFA or MOVEON.

[Dem2]

32. Irrelevant doesn't bother me

it's just irrelevant.

[UglyGreed]

13. A bunch of morally just

individuals I'm sure.....

[giftedgirl77]

26. Hahaha, this place is becoming so predictable.

[PatrickforO]

27. Third way + Wall Street = Major Corruption and the Fucking of the American Middle Class.

Simple formula, really.

[djean111]

28. The Third Way advises the New Democrat Coalition (of DINOs).

No votes or support from me for any of them.

[HooptieWagon]

29. That's who's running the Democratic Party...

...and forcing their candidate down our throat. All we have to do is say 'no more'.

[brooklynite]

33. "forcing their candidate down our throat" = "Democrats voting for our candidate, not yours"

[HooptieWagon]

34. Superdelegate lobbyists deciding the nominee.

Doesn't sound to me like anybody's vote is being counted.

[brooklynite]

35. Superdelegates are significant only if the race is close enough...

....but Bernie doesn't have to worry about that, right? I keep hearing he'll win in a landslide.

[HooptieWagon]

36. Hearing voices in your head, now?

Hope that gets better for you. No Bernie supporter has said he'll take the nomination in a landslide. In fact, the delegates proportionally awarded almost makes a landslide impossible, and guarantees a contest stretching in to summer. Thus y'all's claim of forcing Sanders out after Super Tuesday is a lot of wishfull thinking and ignorance.

[Wilms]

30. ^

[Broward]

31. AKA Hillary's base.