to have their defenses ready now, hopefully damn good ones before it is too late and this and God knows what else comes out during the GE. If they wait until it comes out in a Koch brothers ad with evil music and national play, any defense will come off as defensive and inadequate as well as hastily thrown together.
I am personally in favor of Sanders in the primary for two reasons, the first being that I believe he is incorruptible and will damn sure fight for my interests and my lower class peers interests (I am working class, poor, and disabled without a net - I have many peers in all three categories), he may not win all battles, but no battles are won by appeasement and collusion. Both of which appear to be the status quo tools of the establishment Democrats most notably among the DLC variety which Hillary has strong ties to as one of the founding members of this hybrid third way philosophy of Reagan economics and Democratic social values. The second reason is important from a pragmatic point of view, Hillary is buried in scandal and distrust and exhibits several exploitable character flaws when it comes to money in politics, add to that the extreme lack of enthusiasm (which would provide little to no coattails even if she were to avoid a loss due to her substantial aforementioned flaws as a candidate) leads me to believe that she would be one of the worst candidates we could offer in the GE.
There are those that admire, respect and even believe in Ms. Clinton and for reasons which elude me believe she will actually champion them and their interests, now this makes sense for the affluent Democrats which prosper from a less progressive tax policy and many loopholes they would still be able to exploit as well as increase their war machine and insurance sides of their financial portfolios, the rest I can only attribute to identity politics or exceptional branding and advertisement minds at work.
My hope is that those that admire and support her (I am sure sincerely regardless of my views which likely confound them as much as their's do mine) will at least address the baggage and prepare to do battle properly and early before it is too late because if we are stuck with her as the nominee and they continue to ignore or deny the existence of the baggage as they have each time in this thread I have asked them to work on a defense, I fear we will all suffer the hardships of a Republican triple crown win that would make matters worse in the house and Senate (as she will draw out many reluctant Republican voters that have been trained for thirty years to hate her with a passion) while deflating Democratic turnout as all the young and apathetic poor voters (that I have canvassed and convinced to engage again only because the see the integrity, willingness too fight, and consistency of a candidate they DO NOT BELIEVE will sell them out like all the rest have).
Simply put, there is a reason the poor don't vote, there is a reason the young seldom vote and much of it has to do with seeing thirty years of being sold out by both sides to the highest bidder, Sanders re-inspires such people to turn out again, something Ms. Clinton does not do and I hope there will be enough of them reached by the primary vote, in many states the window is closing fast or is already closed before one may switch registration or register to vote Democratic in the primary. If we fail to win the primary it is my belief there are two possible outcomes-
Hillary wins in a squeaker because somehow the Hillary people wake up in time to counter as much as possible all the baggage ammunition the Republicans are holding on to for the General Election, but the D voters will be unenthusiastic and the R voters will enthusiastically turn out to prove their (Pavlovian at this point) hatred of Clinton and worst case scenarios will be seen in the Senate and House elections. This is the best case scenario in my projections unfortunately, but preferable to the worst case scenario that Clinton will lose even with the electoral map advantage that is believed to exist still at this point and we will have the worst case scenario Senate and House outcomes along with a Republican President (hopefully a neutered corporate one that they are currently trying to find to replace Bush). Any of them would be as bad or most probably worse than Clinton for the lower classes and the continuation of the Corporate coup, but far worse for Women, LGBT, and ethnic people of every variety especially those of faiths other than Christian.
It is because of all this that you are correct, Bernie may lose and if we are stuck with an ethically challenged candidate caught with hands in countless cookie jars, defenses must be prepared early and it would appear on many fronts, we can not afford for her to lose in the GE if she is chosen, it would be foolish to chose her from even a simply pragmatic standpoint, but the US is full of fools and many love the taste of Kool-aid. We need to get them to take their fingers out of their ears now, not later because even if they can not be convinced to vote for the candidate most likely to beat the Republicans and one that may provide significant and needed coattails, they must be convinced to confront this baggage and start finding defenses so that we don't end up losing the WH to the Republicans even if we will still be stuck losing whats left of the nation to the Oligarchs.
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