Why Liberals Separate Race from Class

[Dragonfli]

26. There is a reason for D politicians Who have adopted a hybrid theory of governance

to try to separate the two, for the followers of this hybrid Democratic path (first proposed by the DLC/Third Way branch of the party), It is important to support (or at least appear to support) certain social issues in order to retain some key demographic votes with long ties to the party while embracing a neoliberal approach to fiscal policies, free trade, and privatization.

Their theory simply was/is to adopt certain policies they felt would gain votes from the Reagan supporting Demographic (and also attract large donations from special interests that prosper from neoliberal policies) while keeping the minority, feminist and LGBT vote.

To see supporters of such politicians twist themselves in knots to separate the two falls neatly within the game plan. It is hard to say if vocal supporters of candidates that follow the hybrid path do so deliberately or unwittingly. I imagine that would depend on the individual.

It is the only way they can win, they need the minority vote but they are fiscally committed to right wing policies that lead directly to income inequality and economic injustice. They have in fact already lead us with help from the extreme right wing Republicans directly to a new gilded age we "enjoy" that is reaching Dickensian proportions.

The Left is just a hated thorn in their side at this point and economic populism is the threat they fear the most.
They must divide us along social and economic lines in order to conquer us.

Hence the barrage of attempts (some of them rather nasty) to separate issues that are really two parts of a whole needed for both the social and economic equality that is required if we are to have a healthy happy and just society.

I wrote an OP once that explained these hybrids for those less aware of the party's history and the rise of this faction.

New Democrats, The DLC and the Third Way

Here is a relevant snip:

....After the landslide electoral losses to Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, a group of prominent Democrats began to believe their party was in need of a radical shift in economic policy and ideas of governance. The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) was founded in 1985 by Al From and a group of like-minded politicians and strategists. They advocated a political "Third Way" as a method to achieve the electoral successes of Reaganism by adopting similar economic policies (Reagan Democrats and Moderate Republicans would provide burgeoning new constituencies after adding these new economic policies and politicians to our tent they contended) While hoping to retain, woman, minorities and other social issues allies with long ties to the party. Such would be their new Democratic coalition forged between fiscal right and social left under the "New" Democratic banner. The DLC disbanded in 2011 during an apparent re-branding of the New Democrat movement when money ties to the Koch bros. and Koch representatives placed on the DLC's board embarrassingly became common knowledge among the Democratic left...

Good to see you again, it has been a while my friend, excellent OP by the way.