2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhoever we nominate, there's no reason to "go to the center" after the convention.
The voters don't want us to blur the differences, there aren't any votes we could get from anyone to the right of where we are in the primaries, and the only way we can win in the fall is by building mass enthusiasm...something "centrist" campaigns are incapable of doing.
Instead, we need to reach out to independents whoare more progressive than our party, by ceasing to run as a party of the status quo and by admitting that it is valid to question white supremacy, greed, and militarism.
That's how we grow a victory in the fall.
djean111
(14,255 posts)If she says anything to the contrary, she will be lying, and people will know that.
I believe she would take the "who the fuck else are they gonna vote for" approach to anyone to the left of center, and kiss up to the right.
And, if president - a lot less liberal than Obama.
revbones
(3,660 posts)will quickly be reversed in the general if she gets the nomination. It's in her nature and historically proveable with her.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)But there is no actual leftward movement in the party establishment at the moment. It's like they all lost their imaginations and are just phoning it in.
Lorien
(31,935 posts)to make it to the center.