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What is the difference between a REAL Democrat and the Third Way Democrats
Really that is a very easy question to answer
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Like Buford at Gettysburg, FDR new the importance of holding the High Ground and was rewarded with a great electoral victory. In 1936 FDR won a massive landslide that cemented his policies into place to benefit generations to come. The enactment of these policies led to New Deal Democratic Party electoral dominance for close to 50 years. New Deal policies became the Bedrock Principles of the New Deal Democratic Party for nearly 60 years.
These policies include:
EMERGENCY BANKING ACT
1933 BANKING ACT, (GLASS STEAGALL-FDIC)
FEDERAL EMERGENCY RELIEF ADMINISTRATION
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION
SOIL CONSERVATION ACT
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS (WAGNER) ACT
WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION
SOCIAL SECURITY
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
UNITED STATES HOUSING AUTHORITY
GI BILL
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Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society was the logical progression of the New Deal reforms of an earlier generation. Medicare and Medicaid were introduced along with a declaration of War on Poverty.
Of equal or greater significance was the passage of a package Civil Rights legislation that dealt with the issues of racial segregation and racial injustice in America. This includes the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act.
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...the DLC has been consistent on its core principles: support for fiscal discipline, free trade, reinventing government along more free-market lines, a strong military, welfare reform, a tough-on-crime approach, and a generally pro-business outlook. The organization has tended to bounce around some on social issues, such as abortion and gay rights, which went almost unmentioned in DLC policy statements in the 1980s, and on race.
At its founding, the DLC's chief emphasis was on reconnecting the Democratic Party to white working- and middle-class class voters, who, the DLCers feared, had been increasingly attracted by the Republican Party's social conservatism, especially among northern ethnics and southern Protestants. To the DLC of the 1980s, that meant a message that was less tilted toward minorities and welfare, less radical on social issues like abortion and gays, more pro-defense, and more conservative on economic issues--in other words, less liberal generally. The DLC thundered against the "liberal fundamentalism" of the party's base--unionists, blacks, feminists, Greens, and cause groups generally.
Many within the Democratic Party are beginning to lean toward privatization. "The party that created Social Security is best equipped to redesign Social Security for a new generation," argues former Democratic Rep. Tim Penny.
OMNIBUS BUDGET RECONCILIATION ACT OF 1993
FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT
VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND ENFORCEMENT ACT
NAFTA
WTO-GATT
DADT
DOMA
TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1996
PNTR CHINA
SCHIP
GRAHAM LEACH BLILEY (GLASS STEAGAL REPEAL)
These policies include:
EMERGENCY BANKING ACT
1933 BANKING ACT, (GLASS STEAGALL-FDIC)
FEDERAL EMERGENCY RELIEF ADMINISTRATION
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION
SOIL CONSERVATION ACT
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS (WAGNER) ACT
WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION
SOCIAL SECURITY
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
UNITED STATES HOUSING AUTHORITY
GI BILL
?1450941042
Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society was the logical progression of the New Deal reforms of an earlier generation. Medicare and Medicaid were introduced along with a declaration of War on Poverty.
Of equal or greater significance was the passage of a package Civil Rights legislation that dealt with the issues of racial segregation and racial injustice in America. This includes the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act.
?1451142831
...the DLC has been consistent on its core principles: support for fiscal discipline, free trade, reinventing government along more free-market lines, a strong military, welfare reform, a tough-on-crime approach, and a generally pro-business outlook. The organization has tended to bounce around some on social issues, such as abortion and gay rights, which went almost unmentioned in DLC policy statements in the 1980s, and on race.
At its founding, the DLC's chief emphasis was on reconnecting the Democratic Party to white working- and middle-class class voters, who, the DLCers feared, had been increasingly attracted by the Republican Party's social conservatism, especially among northern ethnics and southern Protestants. To the DLC of the 1980s, that meant a message that was less tilted toward minorities and welfare, less radical on social issues like abortion and gays, more pro-defense, and more conservative on economic issues--in other words, less liberal generally. The DLC thundered against the "liberal fundamentalism" of the party's base--unionists, blacks, feminists, Greens, and cause groups generally.
Many within the Democratic Party are beginning to lean toward privatization. "The party that created Social Security is best equipped to redesign Social Security for a new generation," argues former Democratic Rep. Tim Penny.
OMNIBUS BUDGET RECONCILIATION ACT OF 1993
FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT
VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND ENFORCEMENT ACT
NAFTA
WTO-GATT
DADT
DOMA
TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1996
PNTR CHINA
SCHIP
GRAHAM LEACH BLILEY (GLASS STEAGAL REPEAL)
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