We need a new term for what Obama & Company are doing.

[Hardrada]

It's not appeasement since that implies one has a powerful enemy to appease and the GOP is in a minority for now. It's a sort of unecessary and unusual giveaway to those who loathe you and will shut you down completely when given a chance. I don't get it and I don't know what to call it and I'm not sure even the Greeks had a word for it. Help me out here, please.

[leftstreet]

1. What's wrong with 'complicit?'

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. +1

:thumbsup:

[Hardrada]

21. That is one aspect of course.

But I am looking for one verb to sum up what's going on. I just dont have one.

[villager]

2. Stockholm syndrome?

:shrug:

[Hardrada]

13. Yes, but I don't know who is being held hostage besides

the American people.

[mdmc]

3. corporatism?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. "Bait and Switchers" is still working for me.

;)

[amborin]

14. +1000

[Hardrada]

22. True. That's still another part of what's going on.

[Cha]

5. You don't even know what you're talking about.

[anonymous171]

18. No you. nt

[RoccoR5955]

6. It's called "War on the Middle Class." n/t

[Hardrada]

19. That's certainly part of it. Thanks.

[Duer 157099]

7. Abused spouse syndrome n/t

[Hardrada]

17. That is neatly decriptive but I am trying to get it down to one verb.

He is doing something I can't quite pin down.

[Oregone]

8. Third Way

As it was called under the Clintons.


The reality is that the Democratic Party today is no longer the same as the one under FDR, just as the Republican party today in no way resembles the party of Lincoln. A new age that is the antithesis of liberalism and socialism has arrived, in which candidates are seeking to solve problems by making everyone happy (the people AND private industry). This method doesn't promote the general welfare of the people in the most efficient way, because consideration for business entities normally has precedence. Government can no longer solve a problem for the people if private industry, in some way, can not profit from them doing so. In the end, they merely have to appeal to enough people that enough of the rest can be bought off at election time with their private contributions.

[EFerrari]

11. Bingo. Choose anything from the top shelf. n/t

[Hardrada]

12. That sounds close. I just need to boil that down to one word.

[anonymous171]

15. Profit and efficiency have become our new ethical standards.

:puke:

[Hardrada]

27. That seems to be all too true.

[NuttyFluffers]

34. i like it. brings up visions of jaded Mandarins doing snuff off their elongated pinky nails...

that and the Clinton years.

defense of the status quo, even in the face of imminent disaster; visions of the Qing dynasty imploding come to mind... how much history plays off of older riffs.

[arcane1]

9. Good Cop/Bad Cop

[Hardrada]

20. I hadn't thought of that. Except he is never a bad cop to the

corporate interests. They get a bit of scolding but also all the money.

[Romulox]

40. Precisely. And this is the ONLY move the Axelrod team seems to have...

"Listen, I want to support a Public Option, but those Republicans just won't let me!"

[fascisthunter]

10. complicit

[kenny blankenship]

23. The Greeks *did* have a word for it:

"Trojan Horse"

[Hardrada]

25. That seems to be the general concept!

[RainDog]

24. betrayal n/t

[Hardrada]

26. It seems clear who is being betrayed but there is more to it

than that because betrayal implies some aspect of secrecy and he is giving away the store right in plain sight and for no ulterior reason that I can imagine.

[Donnachaidh]

28. it's called Corporate Sockpuppet Theatre. n/t

[MadHound]

29. Selling out?

Seems like the right term to me:shrug:

[lonestarnot]

30. Trojan!

[lunatica]

31. Hustle

Perhaps we could call it the Political Hustle, or the Democratic Party Hustle.

Here's more from the online dictionary: Ponzi, bait-and-switch, boiler room, bunco game, bunko, con, con job, confidence trick, flimflam, hustle, rip-off, shell game, skin game, sting, swindle

[Echo In Light]

32. Divide & Rule (to advance corp interests & help keep a brainwashed populace divided)

[Odin2005]

33. Bait-n-Switch?

I certainly feel like a jilted lover after working my ass off for him in 2008.

[piratefish08]

36. Same here. I spent months knocking doors and working phone banks for him......

I'd vote dem again just to try and keep the nutbags out of DC, but my campaigning days are over.......

[RT Atlanta]

35. Weak Kneed and/or Rolling over like lap dogs

those two work well for my feelings on the matter because we all know good and fucking well that if the situation was reversed with the parties, that the pukes would steam roll through whatever the hell they wanted, in lock step, with their 59 votes in the senate and majority in the house, and appeal solely to their "base"

[BeFree]

37. Well, you are wrong

Bushco is a powerful enemy.

Anthrax, blackmail, death threats. You think bushco is innocent?

[Bluenorthwest]

38. On the trail they lied without quarter, with great ease

and now they are what they are, Republicans.

[Romulox]

39. It's called "the shell game", "three card monty", "in thru the front door, out thru the back", etc.

Lots of names for this con.

[JHB]

41. Capitulationism

The leadership of the Democratic Party has been in the hands of Capitulationists since Reagan.

[Tailormyst]

42. I use the term "fucking us over"

They lied, we believed it.

[southernyankeebelle]

43. How about Yellow Bellies, Spines Pussies, Girly Men, I could go on but you get the picture.

[bigtree]

44. poli-naivete

from Merriam-Webster:

___ readiness to believe the claims of others without sufficient evidence <though he was streetwise, the investigative reporter assumed an air of naïveté when he was interviewing confidence men, charlatans, counterfeiters, and other assorted swindlers of the general public

[indy legend]

45. Corporo-crat