Reply #37: In reading their website and listening to their rhetoric... [View All]

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...the DLC's intentions and agenda are abundantly clear: End the New Deal and everything that goes with it. And what can't be ended...must be privatized, co-opted and controlled by business interests.

Although they may throw around a few altruistic catch phrases...they're all about lobbying for corporations not satisfied with the billions in unearned corporate welfare handed to them by a trickle-down government...they want the bucks that go to social welfare added to their Cayman Island accounts.

Some say that the DLC was formed to get 'more money FOR business'. But I submit that it's about so much more. They also want an end to the 'welfare state' and to break away from what they call the 'special interests' of the party: Blacks, affirmative action, unions, worker's rights, living wages, women's rights, choice, separation of church and state, public education, gun 'control', etc.

In other words...they call themselves 'new' Democrats because they don't want to be associated with the 'old' party of the people. Their 'third way' is nothing more than a front for replacing social with corporate welfare. All the markings of a corporate state and, yes...fascism.

Others say that the 'liberals' should simply 'compete' with the DLC and get their principles added to the platform and support their candidates during the primaries. But this is a bunch of bull and the DLC knows it. They have usuped the party leadership and have one of their own in all the top positions in the party. The only exception is Dean...but they have him on a leash and smear him every time he speaks out for the rank and file.

The DLC has the 'democratic process' within our party rigged in the same way the Bushie GOP has our elections rigged. It's no accident that the last three 'nominees' for president were all DLCers...including Kerry. The DLC admits outright that their plan to 'change the philosophy of the party' centers around getting one of their own in the White House.

This is why they spend more time attacking 'liberals' than the Bush administration. They use the corporate media in much the same way as the RWingers to demonize the 'radical left' and promote their own candidates as the only ones that can win. They have literally pushed liberals and progressives out of the running. And they do it by working OUTSIDE of the party as a 'think tank' with unlimited funding from those who also don't want liberals to become the nominee and run a winning populist campaign.