2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary, Third Way & Kos Who Attacks Third Way this Week but Thinks Hillary Will Reject Them! Oops!! [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)because we are superior, unlike those naive Liberals'. It's a word that was adapted by the DLC/Third Way used to imply that Liberals were 'idealists' who would never get anywhere.
I was there when it was introduced and slogged through all the 'debates' about 'Pragmatists V Idealists' which only demonstrated that those who throw it around had little idea of the meaning of the word, or its origins.
But that's what Think Tanks do. They come up with 'lingo' to control the message.
Now we are looking at Dems LOSING to complete MORONS thanks to the 'pragmatists' who refused to listen to the voters.
Our party has been hi-jacked by 'pragatists'. They have turned it into a bad word which is what happens when you use a word so often to denigrate other people to the point where it becomes meaningless.
All I know is we are losing, and they, the Third Way have overseen those losses.
Kos finally seems to get that. About time, because he sure didn't get it until pretty recently.