LurkerJ on 18 September 2017
| Shadow1980 said: Well, she isn't completely wrong. Those Bernie Bros either forgot the lesson of 2000, or were too young to remember that election, or they just don't care. Ideological litmus tests are largely bullshit. "Hillary isn't a true liberal" is a refrain of "Al Gore isn't a true liberal." The Bernie Bros who voted third party or sat at home because their guy didn't win the primaries are just as responsible for Trump as Nader voters in 2000 were for Bush. Elections aren't for pitching electoral temper tantrums over your guy not winning the primaries. You vote for the candidate who you agree with the most in the primaries, but if they don't win, come the general election you should still vote for the major party candidate that's closest to you, and if you're left-of-center, that's going to be the Democrat. I for one voted for Sanders in the primary, but come election day, I still voted for Hillary with no hesitation or reservation, because whatever her flaws were, whatever issues I may have disagreed with her on, I knew Trump would be infinitely worse, and lo and behold I keep seeing myself proven right every day that passes with Trumpster Fire still occupying the Oval Office. And that's all I have to say about that. |
That's where you are missing the mark. One can argue that the democratic party is a center right party, passing laws that are great for big pharma, health insurance companies and giant corporations. Throwing you a bone on social issue every now and then while deregulating wallstreet, outsourcing your jobs and pushing for hawkish interventional foreign policy doesn't make the party a leftist party, nor it makes Hillary a centrist candidate.
