Third Way

Here at the Third Way Center we are committed to controlling government spending, and protecting individual liberties against the State.  But we feel very strongly that our current tax system is retrograde and unfair. The wealthiest one percent in this country owns over one-third of the countries wealth [ http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2007/04/10/the-wealth-data-puzzle/?mod=WSJBlog  ], yet paid less than a quarter of Federal taxes [   http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_bartlett...Read Full Story

Recent poll data suggests that as many as 75% of Hispanics vote Democrat.  This is the largest immigrant group, in terms of recent arrivals, number of children had domestically, and future projections.  Asians, as a block, also constitute a large immigrant group.  And they too seem to vote Democrat. More generally, we can say that non-whites overwhelmingly vote Democrat, insofar as they vote.   Of voting non-whites in the U.S., around 70% vote Democrat.  Whites currently constitute no more...Read Full Story

One who looks to the Republican Party today must consider: Is this the real GOP? Is this the GOP of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, Coolidge, and Eisenhower? Is the a party committed to promoting economic growth for the middle class, protection of our cultural and natural heritage, and furthering the interests of the man (and woman) in the street? The GOP of today, at least when it comes to the current leadership, shares only a name with the pre-Reagan GOP. The GOP of today serves corporate...Read Full Story

"Third Way" is a terribly vague term, insofar its positioning between socialism and the unrestrained free market captures the de facto political position of almost every major party in the West.  So, to help flesh things out a bit, I envision "Third Way" as standing for centrism, gradualism, and as being tied to certain political figures such as Bill Clinton and Gordon Brown.  In this sense, "Third Way" ties in very well with the historic, pre-New-Deal character of the Democratic Party, and...Read Full Story

See  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Giddens#The_Third_Way Giddens has many interesting ideas and certainly one can endorse his rejection of "market socialism."   One suspects, though, that he places the "Third Way" too far to the Left.  In particular, his emphasis on anti-traditionalist transformation in the area of gender and his appeal to Habermas are suspect.  Habermas is not "Third Way"; Habermas is the extreme Left.  So is most of what passes for "feminism" today. I think the major...Read Full Story