Reply #13: I agree totally.

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It appears that the DLC, whose members refer to their organization as the "New Democratic movement" or "New Democrats" is the DNC's equivalent to the PNAC ("Project for a New American Century") within the RNC. The PNAC'ers refer to themselves as "Neo Conservatives", or as we know them, "neo-cons". Note the similarity in the two organizations' emphasis on the word "new" (or its equivalent, "neo").

Both parties, IMHO, have cancers growing from within, which have taken over the body politic of each party. The PNAC has spread its tentacles throughout the RNC and exercised control via monetary electoral pressure much as its predecessor, the DLC has done within the DNC. Both groups have the backing of Wall Street and the majority of the Fortune 500 companies, and both are exceedingly corporate-friendly. Both groups have historically shown contempt for "populist" and "progressive" issues.

As far as Wall Street companies are concerned, it doesn't matter which party wins because they figure the DLC will "reign in" the DNC just as the PNAC will "reign in" the RNC.

I'm beginning to feel like we're living in the nightmare George Orwell wrote about in "1984", which, ironically, is when the DLC was conceived by what Jesse Jackson referred to as "Dixiecrats", after Mondale lost to Reagan in a landslide.