2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I feel the need to say something. [View all]Rilgin
(787 posts)For years, progressives, liberals, leftists (whatever name you choose) have been wooed by the conservative politicians running with lip service to their goals. This is considered the norm, run left in the primaries then centrist in the general then practical realities to govern. This is the pundit and centrist model for how government should work.
For a number of reasons, this game is both more transparent this year and not good enough. Hillary tried to do this with lip service but it just gave more momentum to Bernie because he is not the lip service, he is for the policies and will not follow the same mold. Her words are falling on more perceptive ears who are not willing to believe them because of past statements that directly contradict them and a history of being taken for granted and lied to.
Hillary, your candidate, after trying the traditional lying triangulating model of keeping the left appeased with words, has now taken a different approach. The one in the OP. She is just trashing the left and our policies and goals. You might want to read the OP. This has not been done before by a Democratic candidate except mildly in Sistah Souljah moments where candidates show their "independance". Hillary is now trashing the fundaments of what kept the left in the democratic party.
It is a great OP and will be ignored by the Hillary Supporters on this board and by Hillary because they can not really conceive that the left has finally realized that lip service is not good enough.