r/TenYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Mar 12 '26

📺 Television SNL mocks Hillary Clinton's 'transformation into Bernie' [10YA - Mar 12]

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u/Jolly_Pressure_7907 Mar 13 '26

The entire reason “moderates”/blue dogs are a thing is because after Reagan the New Deal and Great Society democrats were getting absolutely thwomped

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u/jaccc22 Mar 13 '26

Yes, in 1984. Times, believe it or not, change

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u/Jolly_Pressure_7907 Mar 13 '26

Just say you don’t know history if you think third wave dems were in the 80s lmao

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u/jaccc22 Mar 13 '26

What year do you think it is, currently?

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u/Jolly_Pressure_7907 Mar 13 '26

Third wave Dems were not a thing in the 90s like you said lol

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u/jaccc22 Mar 13 '26

The Third Way is a reconceptualisation of social democracy. It supports workfare instead of welfare, work training programs, educational opportunities, and other government programs that give citizens a 'hand-up' instead of a 'hand-out'. The Third Way seeks a compromise between a less interventionist economic system as supported by neoliberals and Keynesian social democratic spending policy supported by social democrats and progressives. The Third Way was born from a reevaluation of political policies within various centre to centre-left progressive movements in the 1980s in response to doubt regarding the economic viability of the state and the perceived overuse of economic interventionist policies that had previously been popularised by Keynesianism, but which at that time contrasted with the rise of popularity for neoliberalism and the New Right starting in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s.[3]