YES! Progressives won’t support her if she embraces GOP policies.
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NO! Bernie’s gonna win nomination & he ain’t moving anywhere.
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Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
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The smugness of the Eastern Establishment has boggled my mind for decades. Neither end of the political spectrum (which is only from "a" to "b") gets that the largely supressed-rest-of-us are not on board, have been pitched overboard and no longer believe there's anything worth backing in NYC -- WashDC metro-web (if we ever did!) I doubt there's anyone capable of hearing a reasoned "pitch" to simply back the best ideas (Bernie's moderate reforms) in the Dem Establishment. Trump is spitting in the eye of the Rep Establishment, and knows just what he's doing. Most small business owners, doctors, lawyers, skilled blue collar workers will end up going for Trump if Bernie isn't allowed to take him on -- not just the Limbaugh rabble. Blow hards like Trump are members of every country club in every county seat in the country -- and they throw good bar-be-ques and buy the drinks. Hillary? She's an upstart married to a trailer-trash grifter from Arkansas with his pants unzipped. Wall Street money won't save her from his wit (like it or not, it is, indeed, wit.) It is time, Thom, that the Beltway looks into the mirror and sees how naked and pasty-assed they look. I'm sorry it has come to this, but lack of willingness to engage in self-critical debate lends itself to just what we are witnessing.
Hear, hear!!! :)
She doesn't need to move right. She already is on the right, a Republican in her values and political commitments, if not in name. Her loyalty to Wall Street, her hawkish foreign policy, her indebtedness to Big Pharma and the oil & gas industry; her support for disastrous trade agreements; the evidence for her neoliberal corporatist values is abundant. Will some Democrats and Independents be less inclined to vote for her when she begins to pull back from her Sanders-lite campaign rhetoric? Yes, probably. Many will sit out the election, because they'll see no point in voting for either of the candidates. As Gore Vidal said, there is one political party in America, the Property Party, which has two right wings. She's a card-carrying member of it.
Who cares? It's all rigged anyway, as we have seen all throughout this primary election cycle. She is already way over to the right but will tell any lie, even pretend to adopt Bernie's positions, to hold on to her privileges and power.