No Labels and the Coffee Party were astroturfed movements from the last decade that tried to sell themselves as the reasonable middle. Not at all. Their members were grow-more-government Republicans (Democrats) who couldn’t find a home in the proper party.
A few were actual Democrats who were not radical enough on social issues, energy policy, or abortion (the extinct Blue dogs). And, of course, a handful of hard-core leftists pretending to support a moderate movement to move Overton’s window closer to the musing of “centrists” like Marx and Engels.
All of the leadership or movement politicians and backers are inside the beltway machine parts regardless of registration, and they just created a third political party.
The new party, called Forward and whose creation was first reported by Reuters, will initially be co-chaired by former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang and Christine Todd Whitman, the former Republican governor of New Jersey. They hope the party will become a viable alternative to the Republican and Democratic parties that dominate U.S. politics, founding members told Reuters.
Forward? You not even going to try and hide it, are you?
No, they are not. That’s Andrew Yang’s organization, and as old a Marxist turn of phase as ever there was. And their Party slogan is the No Labels slogan. “Not Left. Not Right. Forward.” A movement about which I’ve written a word or two or two-thousand, for example.
No Labels formed right after the US House Democrats got blown out of power in November 2010 with the tagline, Not Left. Not Right. Forward. A theme that MSNBC would embrace shortly after with ‘Lean Forward‘ as an ill-fitting mask over their histrionic lap-dog leftism.
Plenty more from me (on them) here, but I think you can smell what they’re selling.
Two pillars of the new party’s platform are to “reinvigorate a fair, flourishing economy” and to “give Americans more choices in elections, more confidence in a government that works, and more say in our future.”
As with its predecessors, this is likely a way to dilute votes away from those rare candidates who might shrink government or be convinced of the need to ensure Democrats (or anyone who will grow it) can get into office.
The merger involves the Renew America Movement, formed in 2021 by dozens of former officials in the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Donald Trump; the Forward Party, founded by Yang, who left the Democratic Party in 2021 and became an independent; and the Serve America Movement, a group of Democrats, Republicans and independents whose executive director is former Republican congressman David Jolly.
Any Lincon Project people or money in there? How about GEN Z GOP?
And don’t be fooled by the “members” of either the Reagan or Trump Administration. There are hordes of these people who serve because they can navigate the maze the Machine has created to make politics unreachable to most, including elected officials. They exist to feed and grow the system that coddles them and their above-average lifestyles.
And while I’m generally distrustful of all politicians and not opposed to more parties, the signs point to a movement that will do little to restore power to the people and the states in defense of the Constitutional Republic.
They look like more of what we already have, recycling the Left’s centrist (Never Trump?) Potemkin Villages in an effort to appear fresh and new.
Sorry, same old whore, new dress, and if we’re honest, the dress isn’t new either.
