2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI'm a Hillary supporter and I don't want Bernie to drop out
This primary campaign has been about where we are going as party. Are we going to continue as a mainstream, centrist party as it has been under Presidents Clinton and Obama? Or are we going drive it off a cliff by turning it over the fringe ideologues who will doom us to four or eight years with a Republican in the White House?
Although Hillary's big win last night has made it even more clear that Democratic primary voters are choosing the sane path, I want this primary to continue. I want Democratic primary voters to continue to reject Senator Sanders' extreme policies so that he can serve as a lesson to future candidates.
So, please sending the $27 donations, because running no-chance campaign can be expensive.
firebrand80
(2,760 posts)mucifer
(23,550 posts)I was really hoping you cared about everyone's opinion and letting all Americans get a chance to vote in the primary.
I guess not.
jehop61
(1,735 posts)however, the nasty and mean campaign against her and Democrats, in general, that Bernie seems to be embracing lately and his over the top supporters, makes me wish they would all go away. Can't we have a positive discussion of issues going forward?
Bohemianwriter
(978 posts)It''s kind of strange that Hillary parrots the policies her supporters think are "too extreme".
Isit too extreme to get money and legalized bribery out of politics?
Is it too extrme to hold criminal elements legally accountable for their scam? Iceland was so extreme that they JAILED the bankers.
Is it too extreme to push for 15 dollar minimum wage?
IS it too extreme to oppose TPP, fracking and nefarious trade deals that only benefits tax cheats?
Is it too extremen to push for universal healthcare?
Is it too extreme to make education an investment instead of a country rather than a financial burden for the individual?
The thing is that Hillary doesn't have a single independent idea that is progressive herself. She pushes for RW polocies and are oin the bag og militaristic neocons. Yet here we have Hillary supporters accusing Bernie for being extreme.
I guess none of you will ever go to "extremist" Scandinavia or Leftie extremist England where they have NIS which covers healthcae as well as unemploymence.
When I worked in England a few years ago, I discovered their polocies to be so extreme that I ws given a full months wages even after being sick for a full month. The only thing I needed was to give a weekly doctors notice inwhich my TL picked up at my house once a week.
How extreme is that? This would never fly in Hillary's "centrist" world.
You know who is extreme? Hillary Clinton! She is obscenely extreme in her blatant disregrd for voters and BLM when she dismissies BLM and turns straight to her corporate donors.
You know what is extreme? Accusing Bernie of siding with the arms industry for then to have a fund raiser with a former NRA lobbyist.
Bernie Sanders is the most sensible candidate since Mike Gravel got the cheers from the crowds in 2008 and was exluded from the debates. But Hillary supporters are so extreme in their blind support for legalized briberies, undermining Obama on forewign policy that they don't see her for who and what she really is.
P.S. I wonder why no media has covered the 400 arrest outside Capitol Hill during a protest to get the democracy back in a deeply corrupt republic. Instead MSM and sore "winners" from a Hillary camp who loves voter suppression when it benefits their own neocon candidate is putting on a poutrage over an accurate ad aout how money corrupts politicians.
So stop pretending to be liberal or progressive when you vote for neocon policies. A female version of GWB.
pat_k
(9,313 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)But I was mistaken. Just more nasty shit slinging.
DinahMoeHum
(21,794 posts)just laid a big smelly egg.