Hillary Clinton and "The Third Way" How America's First Lady of the Left Has Bamboozled Liberals and Conservatives Alike "......The focus of Hillary Clinton's ambition is not her country. But it is not just herself either. It is also a place that does not exist. It is the vision of a world that can only be achieved when the Chosen accumulate enough power to change this one.
That is why Hillary and Sid Blumenthal, her fawning New Left Machiavelli, call their own political philosophy the politics of "The Third Way." This distinguishes it from the "triangulation" strategy Dick Morris used to resurrect Bill Clinton's presidency. Morris guided Clinton, in appropriating specific Republican policies towards a balanced budget and welfare reform as a means of securing his re-election. Hillary Clinton was on board for these policies, and in that sense is a triangulator herself. But "triangulation" is too merely tactical and too morally crass to define a serious political philosophy. Above all, it fails to project the sense of promise that intoxicates the imaginations of self-styled "progressives." That is why Hillary and Sid call their politics "The Third Way."
"The Third Way" is a familiar term from the lexicon of the left with a long and dishonorable pedigree in the catastrophes created by messianic socialists in the 20th Century. It is the most ornate panel in the tapestry of deception I described at the beginning of this essay.
In the 1930s, Nazis used "The Third Way" to characterize their own brand of national socialism as a equidistant between the "internationalist" socialism of the Soviet Union and the capitalism of the West. Trotskyists used "The Third Way" as a term to distinguish their own Marxism from Stalinism and capitalism. In the 1960s, New Leftists used "The Third Way" to define their politics as an independent socialism between the Soviet gulag and America's democracy."......
Is that entitlement? Or hubris?
An inability to change? Or a refusal to?
I approached someone who knows the Clintons well, asked how to make sense of this and got an answer that echoed observations about them from the past: “They’d rather seek forgiveness than permission.”......
Sid “Vicious” Blumenthal is a vile, evil nasty man. He has been with the Clintons (especially Hillary) from the beginning. He would look entirely appropriate in a black Deaths Head garrison cap, black uniform and jackboots.
"Bung" Sukarno, Indonesian political strongman and president (the first president of post-colonial Indonesia) , also appropriated the term for his own 1960s political movement, which he characterized as distinctive from both Soviet Communism and Western liberal (in the 19th-century sense) thinking. Sukarno was a Thomas Jefferson fan and cited him often, but he was in fact a species of socialist.
Practically, Sukarno was the stalking-horse cultivated by the Soviets and the Indonesian Communist Party, the PKI, for an intended revolution that would turn Indonesia from a Soviet-friendly independent country (there was a bloc of these countries in the U. N., which often criticized America) to a full-fledged Soviet client state on a par with Communist Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia.
The CIA went to the Indonesian military establishment and spelled out for them what would happen to them in a PKI-run Indonesia. The result was the overthrow of Sukarno by "the colonels" around Gen. Suharto, and the subsequent disappearance of 800,000 PKI cadre, most of whom wound up floating in the Andaman and Java Seas. It was a very sore defeat for International Communism and one of the reasons the Left hates us.