Modern and well-balanced.. as only those of superior intelligence and status (like himself and others of his ilk) can achieve with help from.. oh, I don't know. Useful Idiots? (As Lenin described them.)
Bill Clinton has long be identified with the Third Way -- and I might add, the 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radicals (psycho spoiled brats) that took over the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party in the 1970s. Obama is of course an ideological issue of 1960s Marxist-Alinsky radicals.
Copied from a wiki graffiti article, Third Way is
...Something different and distinct from liberal capitalism with its unswerving belief in the merits of the free market and democratic socialism with its demand management and obsession with the state. The Third Way is in favour of growth, entrepreneurship, enterprise and wealth creation but it is also in favour of greater social justice and it sees the state playing a major role in bringing this about. So in the words of... Anthony Giddens of the LSE the Third Way rejects top down socialism as it rejects traditional neo liberalism. —Report from the BBC, 1999
Third Way means that ultra liberals finally! realize that communism cannot build wealth and thus cannot not work until there is wealth to snatch; and despite the BBC, Third Way does not totally reject neo liberalism; Third Way supports free trade and the market economy -- at least until those mechanisms have created the worldwide wealth that the Third Way ideologues wish to rule.
I have described Third Way (and now includes Obama) as a Marxist revolution from the top down combined with Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) where the capitalists (useful idiots) are used to build wealth worldwide and then are discarded by the ideologues.
Exactly. Modern lefties, except for the absolute bitter clingers, have accepted the fact that socialism is a failure when it comes to production. So they’ve dropped back a trench and shifted their focus to redistribution. They let the greedy capitalists do the hard work of actually making stuff. Then they snatch the stuff away, denounce the capitalists as bastards, and hand it out to the adoring pipples in exchange for their vote, which gives them the power to continue the cycle. It’s a pretty clever racket really. And the cleverest twist is that they’ve gotten many of the capitalists in on it.