The Orwellian redefining of the meaning of the words "centrist" and "moderate"

[Armstead]

25. On what issues and to what extent? That's always the difficult part

I started realizing what a lie the Democrats were perpetuating in the 1990's.

For example, when the Clinton administration was pushing crap like deregulating media ownership. Media ownership had already become concentrated, but there were at least some efforts to retain diversity, such as laws that no company could own more than 6 radio and television stations (or a close figure) nationally, and no company could own more than one type of station in a single market.

But Clinton gleefully pushed a set of "telecommunications reforms": that removed that, which freed up monopolistic media empires to buy as many damn stations as they wanted. As a result, many cities now are under the thumb of monopolies like Viacom and Clear Channel, with 5 or 6 six of their stations owned by one company, and those companies owning hundreds of sound-alike stations all over the country.

That's just one example. Same kind of thing happened in banking and most otehr industries.

That was far worse than definitions like "moderate" and "ultra liberal" or anything. That was pure crony free market corporate capitalism at its worst.

And the Dems did it gleefully. That's when I decided they no longer represent anything remotely liberal on issues of wealth and power.