2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie done ruined everything [View all]DemocraticWing
(1,290 posts)And Hillary Clinton is included in that. I don't think that, deep down, many Democratic politicians are all that unsympathetic to liberalism. Believe it or not, I've actually heard Hillary Clinton push for campaign finance reform and single payer healthcare before. She actually said those things were good ideas. Why has she backtracked? The political process is messy and unfortunately not always great for the left.
But I do think that she and similar Democrats know that a Democratic message has to authentically address these issues raised not just by Bernie but by the millions of people who have stood with him to get that message out there. Those of us who truly believe in his call for revolutionary change do believe he has the best platform out there, but I (and Bernie, apparently) fundamentally believe that making the Democratic Party a vehicle for progressive change is possible and necessary. Some of the work is being done simply by this campaign's existence.
Everybody involved will be better for it in the long run.