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In reply to the discussion: Email from Keith Ellison re: the TPP and the Democratic Platform Committee. [View all]Hortensis
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benefits them. If neoliberals are extreme right, is it your point that there are no "antithesis" liberals in the Democratic Party? We're all rabid right wingers who ran out the liberals? I thought I was a lifelong liberal. How come I don't know this?
At what point did "third way" formed in 1988--which were pragmatic liberal attempts to progress through a middle path given a mostly conservative-voting electorate--turn into an extreme-right "neoliberal" economic and social ideology of today's Democratic Party? I never heard about that either.
You do realize this was over 20 years ago, that the third way faction no longer exists as a power in the party, that the closest current faction would be the centrists, or "New Democrats," who formed in the late 1990s and are maybe 1 out of 4 in the House. They are centrist liberal but still left of the old third-way mediation attempt.
Btw, many young Democratic voters would have no idea the third way, which made sense in its time, ever existed if the anti-Democrat left wasn't dishonestly pretending it still did.