The Third Way:

New Name For Old Concepts

January 26, 2006

 

 

Yesterday, CNN reported a story on Latin America that sounded very much like the domino theory in action - but this time rather than communism, countries are falling to ‘The Third Way’.  So what is ‘The Third Way’?

 From the Progressive Policy Institute on ‘Third Way’ 

"The Third Way is a global movement dedicated to modernizing progressive politics for the information age. Third Way politics seeks a new balance of economic dynamism and social security, a new social compact based on individual rights and responsibilities, and a new model for governing that equips citizens and communities to solve their own problems.”

From Amitai Etzioni:

“As The Economist (1998) wrote about the Third Way: ‘Trying to pin down an exact meaning is like wrestling an inflatable man.  If you get a grip on one limb, all the hot air rushes to another.  Professor Steven Teles (n.d.) of Brandeis University has called the ‘Third Way’ a masterwork of ambiguity’. [1]

 

Benito Mussolini said, “ Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism as it is a merge of state and corporate power”.   Vladimir Lenin said, “Fascism is capitalism in decay”.  If one looks at the Third Way from a social perspective, it is communist.  If one looks at the Third Way from a political perspective, it is fascist.  Therefore it seems to this writer that the Third Way has to be pre-communism.  It is the ‘transformation’ stage between decaying capitalism and full-blown communism. 

 

Modern day communications, highly skilled sociologists, propagandists and corporate ‘buy-off’ money have made it possible to ‘sell’ Third Way concepts but they are just diversion and delay tactics while the technology-driven police state that is required to enforce communism is being built.   The beauty - if one can call it that, is that the concept can be sold to the Left and to the Right using different marketing strategies but in the end the results will be the same.  In this stage of capitalism, the capitalist society is like a whale caught in a net.  The harder it struggles to free itself, the more tangled in the net it becomes and it will surely drown.    

 

Bill Clinton is largely credited with bringing the Third Way philosophy into the U.S. governing structures but in reality, he didn’t start it.  However, for the purposes of this commentary, we’ll allow him to take the credit since his ‘reinvention’ of government, NAFTA, his signature on the Millennium Declaration, the Big Lie of ‘free trade’ and our entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO) were what really got the ball rolling downhill.

 

Mikhail Gorbachev said, "President Clinton will be a success...  if he can make America the creator of a new world order based on consensus

 

"The guiding principle of this reordered world comes directly from the Third Way philosophy: empowerment, opportunity, and responsibility..."
- Bill Clinton, July 2002

 

 

“As part of the initiative to reinvent government, the Clinton administration is reforming the federal grant process into a system of "performance partnerships" that respond to these smaller governmental units and their local needs….Such partnerships signal a shift away from traditional federal grant programs by moving control and responsibility back to the people.”[2]

 

The Third Way philosophy of government is actually the communist way of government.  It uses local community groups, unelected boards, councils and commissions ostensibly promoting ‘new ideas’ for change.  The ‘new ideas’ actually come from the central planners.  Professional facilitators are used to ‘facilitate’ consensus.  Corporate and foundation money that comes with the facilitators helps to buy consenses among government officials.  It’s a very effective system for social transformation - particularly when there is a sleeping public because of lack of information.  In the U.S. the corporate media has been complicit by dropping hard news coverage and replacing it with infotainment.    

 

UNESCO - Medium Term Strategy

 

"Cooperation through partnerships, alliances and other linkages and mechanisms are powerful instruments for addressing global issues, supported by a growing internationalization of civil society and the private sector, largely due to electronic networks.....It is therefore of crucial importance to plan all action, right from the start, within the framework of a partnership system allowing for the most effective distribution of of labour while ensuring effective monitoring of action and results.....UNESCO will also build on its long-established and fruitful relationships with numerous NGO's and representatives of civil society and their umbrella organizations including Associated Schools.... National Commissions, as constituent elements of UNESCO under Article VII of the UNESCO Constitution will continue to act as the central liaison bodies between Member States and the Secretariat....New impetus will be given to UNESCO Clubs, Centres, and Associations.

So what do we have to do to rescue our country from the clutches of communism?   My suggestions would be the following: 

 

  1. Ensure that elections are 100% verifiable by the candidates and the public. Public financing of elections and requirements for free media time for candidates. 
  2. Break up the media monopoly and add requirements for hard news national coverage.  
  3. Lobbying reform.  We have to stop the wholesale purchase of congress by corporations, foreign governments, special interest groups and wealthy individuals.
  4. We need a complete turnover in Congress.  The members who are there are totally corrupt and don’t represent the interests of America and American citizens.
  5. We have to get out of the WTO and rebuild our economy and the middle class.   
  6. We have to end public-private partnerships and rebuild our regulatory infrastructure with full accountability (i.e. no more ‘lessons learned’ BS followed by business as usual)
  7.  Put the military on the border to stop the invasion and begin exporting illegal aliens.  There are enough illegal aliens in this country that the export of them would be equivalent to a WPA program to kickstart the economies of local and state economies.
  8. Pass laws including constitutional amendments if necessary to provide for the removal of corrupt judges who have been instrumental in bringing us to this point of crisis in our country.   

 

This list is only a start.  If we don’t start it now and hurry up about it, we can write off our country and our way of life.  Our legacy to our children and grandchildren will be a global communist system in which they are merely ‘human resources’ to be manipulated and controlled by the New World Order.     


 

[1] Amitai Etzioni, “The Third Way To A Good Society” Section 1.2, pg. 7

[2] Jim Fuller, USIA, Issues in Democracy, April 1997,  http://www.4uth.gov.ua/usa/english/politics/states/ijde0497/partner.htm