2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton Called People on Welfare "Deadbeats" [View all]Hydra
(14,459 posts)But I guess I'll go line by line.
Bernie supporters. I guess it's kinda sad that the Independent is more of a Democrat than our "Leading Candidate."
Hillary as a commie socialist. You were paying attention when President Obama sold us RomneyCare/Gingrich/Nixon Plan as the ACA, weren't you? When he bailed the banks out? The RW calls propping up Capitalism "Red commie socialism." Sad thing is that nobody calls them on it. Note my quotes on that in this post and previous- I'm referring to their position, not mine.
Centerists are awesome. I'm not terribly fond of "centerists" read, Far Right in our party). They all seem to think Republicans are awesome and why shouldn't we all be like that, especially Bushco. I guess it pays well or something...but our party is not supposed to be about the money, it's supposed to be about the people.
Lesser of 2 Evils. Of course someone with a D after their name will win this election. It will probably be Former Sec. Clinton, but we do have better people available with better voting records and less 1% oriented viewpoints.
SCOTUS. This is a valid point finally, but addressed above.
Social safety net had to be cut This is just...I don't know how to wrap my mind around this. We're supposed to do the wrong thing and hurt people...because the RW is just so scary??? And people benefited from it? Try living at that level, especially now, and then get back to me. Almost every program to help people at that level is GONE. Children are starving in one if the richest countries in the world because the RW thinks lazy single mothers are a thing.
Creating skepticism about Hillary Clinton That boat sailed for all of us decades ago. She supported things like welfare gutting and the Iraq War, Kissinger is a good friend of hers, She and her husband are cozy with Bushco and Goldman Sachs...There's no skepticism required- she practically screams what team she's on, and it's not a good one for our party.