All the ways you let me down...

[MinnesotaRob]

Universal Health Care: not possible in this country, ever.

Debt & Tuition Free College: Oh free stuff! Get a job slackers.

Mass Incarceration: don't break the law and you won't go to prison.

Private Prisons: are more efficient and save us money.

Capital Punishment: some crimes deserve an eye for an eye.

Fracking: a green replacement for coal.

Nuclear Energy: clean energy.

Renewable Energy: what, from unicorn farts?

Marijuana: put down the pipe and get a job, Cheech.

Campaign Finance: money has no effect on policy, none.

Predatory Loan Sharks: provide a valuable public service in low income communities.

Health Insurance: a necessary evil.

For-Profit Healthcare: provides the best healthcare in the world.

Mass Surveillance: I've got nothing to hide.

Corporate Media: fair and balanced.

Taxing the Rich: hurts job creators.

Big Banks: make the world go 'round.

Minimum Wage: raises prices and destroys jobs.

Socialism: some people are lazy and want a free ride.

Welfare: I worked hard to earn what I've got.

Trade Deals: bringing jobs to impoverished people.

Pharmaceuticals: all that money goes to R&D and saves lives.

Perpetual War: just keep it someplace where I don't have to see it.

Drone Strikes: not terrorism.

Iraq War Votes: old news, let it go already.

Israel: noble defenders of all that is good.

Palestine: a radical terrorist infestation.

Saudi Arabia: the good guys in the middle east.

DOMA: a sensible position at the time.

Corruption: put on your tinfoil hat.

Exit Polls: junk science.

Issue-Driven Campaigning: going negative.

Negative Campaigning: the truth hurts.

Lobbyists: provide valuable insight from industry experts.

Superdelegates: the Republicans wish they had them too this year.

Protesters: unemployed trouble makers

Campaign Rallies: too bad they don't vote.

Astroturfing: I wish I was getting paid for this post! /s

Democracy: DROP OUT NOW!

Voter Suppression: OMG CONSPIRACY!

Election Fraud: SORE LOSER!

Bernie Sanders: EGOMANIAC!

Sanders Supporters: undercover racists and misogynists.

Liberals: we don't need you.

Independents: get your own party or shut up.

Millennials: grow up and move out of your parents basement.

Change: only happens incrementally, we're progressives not radicals.

Political Revolution:



I'm not so sure I want to be a progressive anymore. Or at least, I am sure that I was never this kind of progressive.

[SamKnause]

1. Excellent list.

[annavictorious]

2. Nothing here on guns?

{{crickets}}

[peace13]

3. When you call people racists ....

......you show your ignorance. Hillary would be so proud that you could burp back her cheat sheet in one breath. Skinner must be proud that Democrats are called racist on his site and no one bothers to alert......what a hopeless group you are!

[Scuba]

4. ...

"If the Democratic Party would fight as hard for the Working Class as the Republican Party fights for the Ruling Class, the Republicans would be a powerless minority party within a few election cycles.

The Democratic Party knows this, the Republican Party knows this, the Ruling Class knows this- and they've been astonishingly successful at making sure the Working Class never learns this.

The status quo was rolling along just fine, until Bernie Sanders came along and mucked it up with his crazy ideas about democracy, equality and justice." ~ Anonymous

[VulgarPoet]

16. Orwell.

"Until the proles are free, they can never revolt, and they can never be free until they revolt."

[Doctor_J]

5. Can't tell if that list is from a republican or from the Hillary group

BTW you left one off

Negative campaigning (by Sanders): you hate women

Rec

[BernieforPres2016]

8. Republican or Hillary group?

What's the difference?

[disillusioned73]

6. Just use/become Liberal...

the faux "progressives" are afraid of that one anyway... they can't co-opt what they fear the most

[djean111]

7. Bookmarking - as a resource when I am told that Bernie and Hillary are so very much alike

on so many things. No, not by a million miles.

Every one of your points will be enthusiastically and mindlessly dubbed as GOOD things, I am afraid. Makes me want to gag. If this is what the Democratic Party stands for, I am ashamed to be a member.

[Logical]

9. Lol, no shit, so amazing how many HILL fans all of the sudden hated single payer. Nt

[pdsimdars]

10. Simply brilliant, breath taking. . . Lots of thought and work went into this. Thanks.

To any mind that is even slightly awake, this should be a JOLT to slap you back into reality from the Hillary mind dream. These things are real. And they are NOT Democratic ideals.

[SidDithers]

11. Welcome to DU...

Sid

[uponit7771]

12. I don't trust your list, when it comes down to it these least are full of shit and half truths to..

... the degree that I don't trust them any longer.

But I get it, you're angry and disappointed...

Wouldn't it be more constructive to list how Sanders can help the DNC in off years?

tia

[Punkingal]

13. Wow!

As a fellow Minnesotan, I have to say I'm proud of you for this excellent post!

[2cannan]

14. Excellent list but looks like a few things are missing.

-Private email account: Everyone else did it!
-Personal email server and having classified material on it: Powell and Rice did it too! (not!). Karl Rove and the Republicans used a private server and deleted thousands of emails, too!
-Clinton Foundation: It does such good work!

I'm sure there is much more...

[MinnesotaRob]

18. Yes, by no means an exhaustive list...

I left out things like the email server and the Clinton Foundation because I didn't want to personalize this to HRC. It's not so much about Her specifically, she is not personally the problem, no single person is. She is more like just another symptom of a festering infection that has been left untreated for decades. But even sticking to more generalized issues, I'm sure there are at least a dozen or two more.

[YouDig]

15. "Prgressive anymore." I doubt you ever were to begin with.

[VulgarPoet]

17. Bookmarking, kicking, and rec'ing. nt

[Live and Learn]

19. I do believe I have seen all of that on this site. Very sad. nt

[geek tragedy]

20. thank you for registering in order to share your sour grapes with us nt

[felix_numinous]

21. The blinders necessary to block all of this out

must look like blindfolds with pinholes in them, just enough to read the daily talking points.

[CobaltBlue]

22. MinnesotaRob—Perpetual War: Trending No. 1 in “Job Opportunities.”

[JEB]

23. All excellent issues. K&R