#thirdway — Public Fediverse posts
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"What the #media is refusing to do, on an institutional level, is disclose the glaring conflicts of interests these groups—backed by billionaires, health insurance giants, pro-Israel lobbying firms, and massive corporations —would have in attacking candidates who undermine their sponsors’ bottom lines and ideological agendas."
#AdamJohnson on #ThirdWay #shitlibs being deployed against #DSA & left #Democrats
https://therealnews.com/media-electability-experts-funded-by-wall-st-amazon-health-insurance
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"What the #media is refusing to do, on an institutional level, is disclose the glaring conflicts of interests these groups—backed by billionaires, health insurance giants, pro-Israel lobbying firms, and massive corporations —would have in attacking candidates who undermine their sponsors’ bottom lines and ideological agendas."
#AdamJohnson on #ThirdWay #shitlibs being deployed against #DSA & left #Democrats
https://therealnews.com/media-electability-experts-funded-by-wall-st-amazon-health-insurance
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All you “Third Way” fuckers had better man up and be ready, willing, and happy to pay some fucking corporate and wealth taxes.
Otherwise, we’ll bury you.
#ThirdWay #VoteBlueToLive #TaxCorporations #TaxBillionaires #USPol
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All you “Third Way” fuckers had better man up and be ready, willing, and happy to pay some fucking corporate and wealth taxes.
Otherwise, we’ll bury you.
#ThirdWay #VoteBlueToLive #TaxCorporations #TaxBillionaires #USPol
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⬆️ @david
>> fuck off into the sun, #Carville. People like #AOC, #Mamdami, and #ElSayed are the future.100%
>> joke goes that centrists fight the Left harder than they fight Donald #Trump… It’s no longer a joke: after “rolling over and playing dead” after 2024, centrists like #ThirdWay are now coming back alive— to fight against #socialism. #DSA
That's because #EstablishmentDemocrats sense a clear and present danger to their #bipartisanGrift machine in #connivance with #Republicans
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What do you mean "Third Way Democrats"??
Mussolini called #fascism: "The Third Way"
With a significant part of MAGA being deeply nazi-pilled, you think they don't know that??
Or, do they know that they know, and are actually nazi-signalling to potential new voters seeking escape the sinking Trump-boat: "Hey, we're in on the fascist shit too, but we hide it better than them. Hop aboard! 🤫 "
Call me paranoid, but bought big business politicians always love fascism.
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What do you mean "Third Way Democrats"??
Mussolini called #fascism: "The Third Way"
With a significant part of MAGA being deeply nazi-pilled, you think they don't know that??
Or, do they know that they know, and are actually nazi-signalling to potential new voters seeking escape the sinking Trump-boat: "Hey, we're in on the fascist shit too, but we hide it better than them. Hop aboard! 🤫 "
Call me paranoid, but bought big business politicians always love fascism.
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"The Labour Party […] is a centralised, bureaucratic organisation that plays a key role in UK democracy whether or not the Labour Party is in government. The right [of the party] never truly ceded control over the Labour Party machine, even when Corbyn was in power. As observers from across the political spectrum have documented, key players on the Labour right worked behind the scenes to undermine him throughout his tenure."
Burnham "has flip-flopped enough times for the Labour machine’s apparatchiks to accept he is no threat to their project.
"Perhaps more importantly, Burnham lacks a coherent base that might hold him to account were he to tack to the right once in office. He doesn’t have strong links with the unions or any social movements. He is relatively popular among the Labour membership, but the Party has been so centralised under Starmer that members now play a much-diminished role – and Burnham is unlikely to change this.
"In short, as with Starmer, there will be no one to challenge him if he reneges on commitments. Equally, there will be no one to defend him if the Labour machine turns on him."The challenge Burnham faces is unresolvable within the current political settlement. For as long as Labour exists as a cartel, divorced from a mass base, it will remain a playground for lobbyists and consultants. These interests will fight tirelessly for their preferred policies – policies that directly contradict the interests of the majority of people in the UK. And any leader who attempts to democratise the Labour Party and take on these vested interests will be eliminated by the Labour machine.
"The only way to square this circle is to build power outside the Labour Party".Grace Blakeley: https://graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-labour-machine-always-wins
#triangulation #cooperation #cartel #lobbying #promotion #parties #acceptance #ThirdWay #TonyBlair #Starmer #Burnham #UKPol #UKPolitics #LabourParty
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"The Labour Party […] is a centralised, bureaucratic organisation that plays a key role in UK democracy whether or not the Labour Party is in government. The right [of the party] never truly ceded control over the Labour Party machine, even when Corbyn was in power. As observers from across the political spectrum have documented, key players on the Labour right worked behind the scenes to undermine him throughout his tenure."
Burnham "has flip-flopped enough times for the Labour machine’s apparatchiks to accept he is no threat to their project.
"Perhaps more importantly, Burnham lacks a coherent base that might hold him to account were he to tack to the right once in office. He doesn’t have strong links with the unions or any social movements. He is relatively popular among the Labour membership, but the Party has been so centralised under Starmer that members now play a much-diminished role – and Burnham is unlikely to change this.
"In short, as with Starmer, there will be no one to challenge him if he reneges on commitments. Equally, there will be no one to defend him if the Labour machine turns on him."The challenge Burnham faces is unresolvable within the current political settlement. For as long as Labour exists as a cartel, divorced from a mass base, it will remain a playground for lobbyists and consultants. These interests will fight tirelessly for their preferred policies – policies that directly contradict the interests of the majority of people in the UK. And any leader who attempts to democratise the Labour Party and take on these vested interests will be eliminated by the Labour machine.
"The only way to square this circle is to build power outside the Labour Party".Grace Blakeley: https://graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-labour-machine-always-wins
#triangulation #cooperation #cartel #lobbying #promotion #parties #acceptance #ThirdWay #TonyBlair #Starmer #Burnham #UKPol #UKPolitics #LabourParty
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«“There’s nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos,” the activist and author Jim Hightower once warned. It was a viewpoint Bernie Sanders amplified in his 2020 presidential race when he declared that “there is no middle ground” in the fight against oligarchy.»
#ThirdWay #ModerateDems #centrist #MiddleGround
https://www.levernews.com/democrats-middle-lane-is-collapsing/?utm_medium=newsletter-email&utm_campaign=newsletter-article&ref=lever-reports-newsletter -
«“There’s nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos,” the activist and author Jim Hightower once warned. It was a viewpoint Bernie Sanders amplified in his 2020 presidential race when he declared that “there is no middle ground” in the fight against oligarchy.»
#ThirdWay #ModerateDems #centrist #MiddleGround
https://www.levernews.com/democrats-middle-lane-is-collapsing/?utm_medium=newsletter-email&utm_campaign=newsletter-article&ref=lever-reports-newsletter -
Hasan Derangement Is Backfiring Spectacularly For Centrists #HasanPiker #AIPAC #Donorcrats #ThirdWay #LOL youtube.com/watch?v=EPLi...
Hasan Derangement Is Backfirin... -
#MattBennett is the founder of The #ThirdWay 'think' tank.
The purpose of 'centre' right #ThirdWay (as is the purpose of #AIPAC, #MAGA, #rightwing nutters, #zionazis, #Christofascists) is to CRUSH #progressive policies , progressive politicians and the majority of citizens, in favour of #billionaires in the U.S. and the #UK (Blair etc) These are #DemocracySuppressionMachines
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#MattBennett is the founder of The #ThirdWay 'think' tank.
The purpose of 'centre' right #ThirdWay (as is the purpose of #AIPAC, #MAGA, #rightwing nutters, #zionazis, #Christofascists) is to CRUSH #progressive policies , progressive politicians and the majority of citizens, in favour of #billionaires in the U.S. and the #UK (Blair etc) These are #DemocracySuppressionMachines
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On the Third Way woman trying to eliminate progressive candidates in the Democratic Corporation's primaries. She used to be a PRO drunk and driving lobbyist
#TheBulwark #HasanPiker #ThirdWay #Neocon #NeverTrumpRepublicans #Democrats #DNC #BillyKristal #DSA #UnitedStates #BushNeocons #DemocraticSocialistsOfAmerica #Politics #Twitch #KamalaHarris
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On the Third Way woman trying to eliminate progressive candidates in the Democratic Corporation's primaries. She used to be a PRO drunk and driving lobbyist
#TheBulwark #HasanPiker #ThirdWay #Neocon #NeverTrumpRepublicans #Democrats #DNC #BillyKristal #DSA #UnitedStates #BushNeocons #DemocraticSocialistsOfAmerica #Politics #Twitch #KamalaHarris
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I'm So Fucking Done With Hasan Derangement Syndrome #ThirdWay #Donorcrats #MalignantCentrism #MAGALite #Hasan #Leftists #Neocons #TheBulwark youtu.be/i_x1yOMEfeQ
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Why the #ThirdWay Failed
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/why-the-third-way-failed/8285C7026EE18088839C3F6826FA03DCUPDATE: The title '...Third Way Failed ' was enough to peak my interest. I haven't read the book and I've not seen suggestions in this book for something better. So I do not know if the author proposes #socialism, #democraticSocialism or anything else.
But I did want to find a book which recognises that the Third Way failled. -
Why the #ThirdWay Failed
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/why-the-third-way-failed/8285C7026EE18088839C3F6826FA03DCUPDATE: The title '...Third Way Failed ' was enough to peak my interest. I haven't read the book and I've not seen suggestions in this book for something better. So I do not know if the author proposes #socialism, #democraticSocialism or anything else.
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CNN's Disgusting Hitpiece On Hassan #CorporateMedia #ThirdWay #TurdWay #Israel #Hasan #CNN #Propaganda youtube.com/watch?v=d-4Z...
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“You wanna know the worst possible outcome for 2028? Tucker Carlson runs on an anti-Israel platform and the Democrats put forward a pro-defending-America’s-military-might candidate…Tucker Carlson vs Gavin Newsom is unlimited Tucker Carlson victory… Ronald Reagan victory numbers.”
“The Democrats as a national party have to universally oppose Israel. ”
#corporareDemocrats #shitlibs #israel #democrats #neoliberals #gavinnewsom #thirdway #zionists #2028election
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“You wanna know the worst possible outcome for 2028? Tucker Carlson runs on an anti-Israel platform and the Democrats put forward a pro-defending-America’s-military-might candidate…Tucker Carlson vs Gavin Newsom is unlimited Tucker Carlson victory… Ronald Reagan victory numbers.”
“The Democrats as a national party have to universally oppose Israel. ”
#corporareDemocrats #shitlibs #israel #democrats #neoliberals #gavinnewsom #thirdway #zionists #2028election
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Fuck Third Way Democrats
"shitlibs who don’t care about losing to trump now want you to obey in advance to their hypothetical establishment candidate while there isn’t even a guarantee there will be an election 2 years from now.
using marginalized ppl as a cudgel as gavin threw trans ppl under the bus”
#ThirdWay #CorporateDemocrats #neoliberals #shitlibs #GavinNewsom
https://xcancel.com/hasanthehun/status/2021606871367319716#m
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"It’s easy to forget now, but the highest law during the New Labour years, particularly for its staunchest advocates, generally revolved around status and personal advantage. This was politics, at its worst, at the end of history.
Philip Gould, New Labour’s polling supremo, wrote that the aspirations of the post-industrial working class had significantly shifted, now revolving around things like buying a new washing machine. Ideals and utopias were a thing of the past, he contended, replaced by consumerism, Pareto optimality and public management speak. But discarded alongside the ideological refuse of the Twentieth Century — by many of Gould’s fellow travellers at least — was any belief in an ethical life. For the faction’s most senior figures that intensified into a veneration of power for its own sake. It’s no accident that Jonathan Powell, formerly Blair’s chief of staff, and now Starmer’s national security adviser, wrote a book titled The New Machiavelli.
Rather than politics being an instrument to achieve a particular good, such as social democracy, national renewal or a flourishing free market, it became an end in itself. That would, in time, give rise to some of the ugliest pathologies in public life: if politics was about technique, and not morality, then how one behaved didn’t matter — and one certainly shouldn’t be concerned about the consequences. Understand this and suddenly the actions of not only Mandelson, but Blair and Alastair Campbell, become easier to comprehend. An obsession with making money, a vice typically ascribed to the Conservatives, is far more intuitive to the common man."
https://unherd.com/2026/02/the-dark-shadow-of-the-blairites/
#UK #LabourParty #Blarities #Starmer #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #ThirdWay #Blair
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"It’s easy to forget now, but the highest law during the New Labour years, particularly for its staunchest advocates, generally revolved around status and personal advantage. This was politics, at its worst, at the end of history.
Philip Gould, New Labour’s polling supremo, wrote that the aspirations of the post-industrial working class had significantly shifted, now revolving around things like buying a new washing machine. Ideals and utopias were a thing of the past, he contended, replaced by consumerism, Pareto optimality and public management speak. But discarded alongside the ideological refuse of the Twentieth Century — by many of Gould’s fellow travellers at least — was any belief in an ethical life. For the faction’s most senior figures that intensified into a veneration of power for its own sake. It’s no accident that Jonathan Powell, formerly Blair’s chief of staff, and now Starmer’s national security adviser, wrote a book titled The New Machiavelli.
Rather than politics being an instrument to achieve a particular good, such as social democracy, national renewal or a flourishing free market, it became an end in itself. That would, in time, give rise to some of the ugliest pathologies in public life: if politics was about technique, and not morality, then how one behaved didn’t matter — and one certainly shouldn’t be concerned about the consequences. Understand this and suddenly the actions of not only Mandelson, but Blair and Alastair Campbell, become easier to comprehend. An obsession with making money, a vice typically ascribed to the Conservatives, is far more intuitive to the common man."
https://unherd.com/2026/02/the-dark-shadow-of-the-blairites/
#UK #LabourParty #Blarities #Starmer #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #ThirdWay #Blair
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“Hi! It's us, the centrist establishment that's been running the Democratic Party and produced every Dem nominee in recent history. “
“Things are going really great for us, right? So we have some advice for how Dems can keep up our awesome win record in 2028.”
#ThirdWay #centrists #Democrats #shitlibs
https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=Hi+it%E2%80%99s+us+the+centrist
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"I try to show that the Left in Europe, both the radical and the institutional, was caught in a bind by the strategies of employers, conservative political forces, and elements of the state. In both cases they were forced to choose between unappealing options. Perhaps the most pressing was to radicalize or moderate their strategies. They’re of course not the only agents in this story, and the Left is not in total control of the situation. But the ultimate outcome of the decisions taken at this critical moment was the evacuation of the working class from left structures and a weakening of labor more broadly.
There are clashes over what to do about economic restructuring and automation, participation in management structures and government, and media and communication technologies. An older generation of self-educated industrial worker activists rub up against a younger generation of educated, often white-collar members, each with different views on priorities and conduct. I mainly focus on the main electoral parties of the Left because they were the main organizations that workers joined and voted for at the time, and the ones that shaped how millions of people thought about the world. The radical left had sparser influence even if they suffered a broadly similar outcome.
In brief, the West European left went into decline not because of an unstoppable neoliberalism and a weakened manufacturing-based economy, but because it failed to recognize and mobilize new constituencies of workers, including migrants and women, and instead embraced a kind of “third way” social capitalism."
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/european-socialism-left-1970s-defeat
#Europe #Socialism #WorkersMovement #ClassStruggle #ThirdWay
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"I try to show that the Left in Europe, both the radical and the institutional, was caught in a bind by the strategies of employers, conservative political forces, and elements of the state. In both cases they were forced to choose between unappealing options. Perhaps the most pressing was to radicalize or moderate their strategies. They’re of course not the only agents in this story, and the Left is not in total control of the situation. But the ultimate outcome of the decisions taken at this critical moment was the evacuation of the working class from left structures and a weakening of labor more broadly.
There are clashes over what to do about economic restructuring and automation, participation in management structures and government, and media and communication technologies. An older generation of self-educated industrial worker activists rub up against a younger generation of educated, often white-collar members, each with different views on priorities and conduct. I mainly focus on the main electoral parties of the Left because they were the main organizations that workers joined and voted for at the time, and the ones that shaped how millions of people thought about the world. The radical left had sparser influence even if they suffered a broadly similar outcome.
In brief, the West European left went into decline not because of an unstoppable neoliberalism and a weakened manufacturing-based economy, but because it failed to recognize and mobilize new constituencies of workers, including migrants and women, and instead embraced a kind of “third way” social capitalism."
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/european-socialism-left-1970s-defeat
#Europe #Socialism #WorkersMovement #ClassStruggle #ThirdWay
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At the very least, a #ThirdWay would give us a fighting chance of arresting the onslaught of generative LLMs into every aspect of our digital existences. That's in direct opposition to, say, Microsoft, who've been working with the MinOfEd for years for ways to shoehorn 'AI' into every aspect of the curriculum: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/492898/documents-expose-microsoft-s-relationship-with-nz-education-and-hopes-for-ai-in-schools
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At the very least, a #ThirdWay would give us a fighting chance of arresting the onslaught of generative LLMs into every aspect of our digital existences. That's in direct opposition to, say, Microsoft, who've been working with the MinOfEd for years for ways to shoehorn 'AI' into every aspect of the curriculum: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/492898/documents-expose-microsoft-s-relationship-with-nz-education-and-hopes-for-ai-in-schools
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I think we'd all benefit in many ways from an edtech #ThirdWay that is fully run by NZ businesses competing to offer services with a common set of open (#libre) platforms that give us, as a country, the ability to set our pedagogical & practical tech direction. If you want to create tech-savvy kiwi kids, the best way is to give them real experience with open tech, without glass ceilings or steel floors.
I'm certain it would, post transition, cost us all less & offer us far more.
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I think we'd all benefit in many ways from an edtech #ThirdWay that is fully run by NZ businesses competing to offer services with a common set of open (#libre) platforms that give us, as a country, the ability to set our pedagogical & practical tech direction. If you want to create tech-savvy kiwi kids, the best way is to give them real experience with open tech, without glass ceilings or steel floors.
I'm certain it would, post transition, cost us all less & offer us far more.
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The #edtech status quo in Aotearoa has huge inertia & plenty of tech support staff who mostly have very narrow expertise, limited to those two US corporate monocultures and a smattering of other things around the edges. So whatever transition is proposed needs to be gradual & carefully-managed. Ultimately, a transition to a #ThirdWay will be mostly political & there'll be a stiff opposition to it from the many vested interests involved. We need to agree the status quo is not acceptable.
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The #edtech status quo in Aotearoa has huge inertia & plenty of tech support staff who mostly have very narrow expertise, limited to those two US corporate monocultures and a smattering of other things around the edges. So whatever transition is proposed needs to be gradual & carefully-managed. Ultimately, a transition to a #ThirdWay will be mostly political & there'll be a stiff opposition to it from the many vested interests involved. We need to agree the status quo is not acceptable.
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Over the coming weeks, I'm going to start explaining what I think that #ThirdWay should look like, because I don't think we can afford, as a nation, to continue with the duopoly to which the MinOfEd has shackled us.
For the curious, here's a starting point: https://davelane.nz/openschools - in addition to an explainer video, there's an entire book (available for download as a PDF) on there, which explains that better way.
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Over the coming weeks, I'm going to start explaining what I think that #ThirdWay should look like, because I don't think we can afford, as a nation, to continue with the duopoly to which the MinOfEd has shackled us.
For the curious, here's a starting point: https://davelane.nz/openschools - in addition to an explainer video, there's an entire book (available for download as a PDF) on there, which explains that better way.
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Unbeknownst to anyone with decision-making power in the MinOfEd, with a bit of leadership & vision, we could create a vastly better edtech landscape for Aotearoa *in* Aotearoa, without any dependence on foreign tech corporations whatsoever. But, yeah, the 'leadership & vision' part is missing entirely. Seems to me, we need a mandate for the MinOfEd to realise that putting all our eggs in those two very precarious MS & GOOG baskets is/was a mistake & they need to invest in a '#ThirdWay'.
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Unbeknownst to anyone with decision-making power in the MinOfEd, with a bit of leadership & vision, we could create a vastly better edtech landscape for Aotearoa *in* Aotearoa, without any dependence on foreign tech corporations whatsoever. But, yeah, the 'leadership & vision' part is missing entirely. Seems to me, we need a mandate for the MinOfEd to realise that putting all our eggs in those two very precarious MS & GOOG baskets is/was a mistake & they need to invest in a '#ThirdWay'.
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Almost halfway into this episode.
Among a lot of interesting things Nesrine Malik says on the present political situation, she has some very good political advice for politicians like Starmer and Timmermans, who think being centrists, or palatable to centrists, is the way forward for the left.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mMNf4VZE8EI&list=PLLkT5TSHWFSZJeAga5pdyL6pJ9hC6h6H6&index=2&pp=iAQB
#UKpol #Trump #Sudan #Gaza #WesternDemocracy #Europe #voters #centrism #ThirdWay #Timmermans #PvdA #LabourParty #InternationalRuleBasedOrder #UN #Gramsci #rupture #KierStarmer #interconnectedness #refugees #war #far_right #gaslighting @palestine #Israel #ArabWorld
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The malignant cancer that has destroyed the Democratic Party starting with the Clinton administration continues its assault on the working class and democracy. #ThirdWay #neoliberalism #DemocraticParty
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Both sides agree that Kamala Harris was too WOKE & incoherent to win over Real Americans. No amount of campaigning with Republicans and for Republican policies could persuade the Civil Rights opposing “middle” to vote for a “7th string quarterback.” #centerism #Unity #NoLabels #ThirdWay
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dwo4vgrhrri3lnrc4inkwtdh/post/3lh5cfnckqr2m -
#Neoliberalism #ThirdWay #Neoliberals #Politics #Clinton #Blair: "The reason I think the distinction between calling someone a neoliberal versus talking about neoliberalized politics is important is because I think if we want to explain it, if we understand why it happened, then we can’t just substitute a label for the complexity of the actual politics underlying it, including the complexity of the perspectives of the people we’re talking about.
In other words, I think it’s perfectly fair to call Reagan and Thatcher neoliberal politicians for good historical reasons. But I don’t think that the same rationale holds for figures like Blair and Clinton. And to me, if we want to understand this historically in a way that might help us move things forward, then we need to address the explanatory question. We need to acknowledge the differences and we need to understand this disjuncture between what leading figures associated with the Third Way said about themselves and what they actually did. We need to understand how it made sense to them, in other words, that they could say — as far as I or anyone else as an outsider knows, with sincerity — that you could be a social democrat or a Labour politician, or Clinton would kind of move in between calling himself “liberal” and “progressive,” and also adopt pro-market policies that clearly didn’t work in the interest of many of their traditional constituencies. Even if they said they did, and still understand themselves to be doing something consistent, coherent."
https://jacobin.com/2024/02/stephanie-mudge-third-way-left-parties-neoliberalism-history/
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#Neoliberalism #ThirdWay #Neoliberals #Politics #Clinton #Blair: "The reason I think the distinction between calling someone a neoliberal versus talking about neoliberalized politics is important is because I think if we want to explain it, if we understand why it happened, then we can’t just substitute a label for the complexity of the actual politics underlying it, including the complexity of the perspectives of the people we’re talking about.
In other words, I think it’s perfectly fair to call Reagan and Thatcher neoliberal politicians for good historical reasons. But I don’t think that the same rationale holds for figures like Blair and Clinton. And to me, if we want to understand this historically in a way that might help us move things forward, then we need to address the explanatory question. We need to acknowledge the differences and we need to understand this disjuncture between what leading figures associated with the Third Way said about themselves and what they actually did. We need to understand how it made sense to them, in other words, that they could say — as far as I or anyone else as an outsider knows, with sincerity — that you could be a social democrat or a Labour politician, or Clinton would kind of move in between calling himself “liberal” and “progressive,” and also adopt pro-market policies that clearly didn’t work in the interest of many of their traditional constituencies. Even if they said they did, and still understand themselves to be doing something consistent, coherent."
https://jacobin.com/2024/02/stephanie-mudge-third-way-left-parties-neoliberalism-history/
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New case study from the center left think tank #thirdway about #maine #hospital consolidation and how it's "ripping off patients"
As a Maine doc, the only omission I see is that they fail to discuss Maine's #certificateofneed law which allows hospitals here to block lower cost competitors. That's part of why we send some patients out of state for lower cost tests and surgeries.
https://www.thirdway.org/report/fixing-maines-broken-hospitals-a-case-study
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New case study from the center left think tank #thirdway about #maine #hospital consolidation and how it's "ripping off patients"
As a Maine doc, the only omission I see is that they fail to discuss Maine's #certificateofneed law which allows hospitals here to block lower cost competitors. That's part of why we send some patients out of state for lower cost tests and surgeries.
https://www.thirdway.org/report/fixing-maines-broken-hospitals-a-case-study
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CW: Long thread/2
The Biden administration is a mix of appointees from the party's left #Sanders/#Warren wing, and the #corporatist, "#ThirdWay" wing associated with #Clinton and #Obama, which has been ascendant since the #Reagan years. The #neoliberal wing presided over #NAFTA, the #ForeclosureCrisis, #CharterSchools and the bailout for the bankers - but not the people.
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Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
Child pornography fetishist #EliotCutler and his Jupiter-sized ego enabled #Trumplite #teaparty Governor #PaulLePage to run #Maine into the ground for eight years. This cluster*** set the table for the nation.
He'll spend nine months in county jail.
His insufferable 2010 and 2014 #thirdway supporters can pound sand.
https://www.pressherald.com/2023/05/02/eliot-cutler-to-serve-9-months-in-prison-on-child-porn-charges/