Hillary has been pushed to sound progressive, but if she wins she'll go back to the same old DLC/

[JRLeft]

Third Way corporatism, that's just the way things work with the Wall Street side of the party they pretend to care about the people until elected.

After she's elected she will bring in all of the lobbyists and Wall Street power players in order to help transition into office continuing the corporate dominance on this nation.

[djean111]

1. Absolutely true. Every word.

Not Hilary's words, your words.

[JRLeft]

4. Her words are as empty as a plastic cup after it was pulled out of its bag.

[TTUBatfan2008]

2. "Bring in" lobbyists after election?

The lobbyists are already part of her campaign. Her campaign manager is a lobbyist with a lobbyist brother and lobbyist ex-sister in law.

[JRLeft]

5. There will be more.

[TTUBatfan2008]

6. Agree

John Podesta's position in her campaign is pretty good indicator of what to expect with a Clinton administration.

[farleftlib]

3. Everybody knows this! They must.

She claimed to be a proud centrist when it was politically advantageous and now she claims to be a progressive. But when the rubber hits the road, she reliably serves her corporate masters to the detriment of the voters.

[JRLeft]

8. There are a lot of people who don't know and a lot of people don't care either.

[NorthCarolina]

7. She can't sound progressive because to be authentic

YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE.

[JRLeft]

9. She doesn't believe but she knows how to play the game.

[Fuddnik]

10. I saw a clip of her on Democracy Now this morning.

She sounded like she was running against herself.

She was a complete 180 degrees from where she was a month ago. I don't believe a word she says.

[JRLeft]

12. She knows she has to sound progressive to win, but it's temporary.

[dchill]

11. Yep. She's punking us...

Just like Obama did.

[RiverLover]

13. RollingStone (2015): "Campaign 2016: Hillary Clinton's Fake Populism Is a Hit"

It would seem many people are falling for it.

Tragically.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/campaign-2016-hillary-clintons-fake-populism-is-a-hit-20150416

[potone]

14. Bernie is right that the problem is the campaign finance system.

I am a Bernie supporter, but I don't think that Hillary is evil. She has supported progressive causes in the past. I do believe that politicians with good intentions end up backing bad policies because they are pressured by special interests groups that will try to destroy any politician who defies them. This is what needs to change, and it is hard to see how it can as long as Citizens United and associated SCOTUS decisions remain the law of the land.

[JRLeft]

22. They made her wealthy she's indebted to them for life.

[mikehiggins]

15. Absolutely true

HRC cannot be trusted to even make the attempt to fight for the possibility of maybe, possibly, taking even the first steps towards implementing a progressive agenda.

She's already pointing out she would appoint Wall Street insiders to her cabinet. She needs, after all, people who know how the system works.

That'd be like Teddy Roosevelt appointing Rockefeller to his cabinet, except HRC is no TR.

[RoccoR5955]

16. Hillary IS progressive. You just don't understand

her definition of, "being progressive and getting things done."
What she means by this is that she dresses in a white smock with the word "Progressive" in blue on it and gets done selling insurance to you while wearing bright red lipstick!

[Jefferson23]

17. Think about her words, be realistic. lol

[bowens43]

18. hill and DLC are to to the right of Reagan on many issues.....

[TCJ70]

19. This has been my concern all along with the "pull her left"...

...stuff. Why would I believe anyone that needs to be pulled to my viewpoints would stay there? Especially when they should have been there all along?

[JRLeft]

23. Bait and switch

[Skwmom]

20. No duh. n/t

[Bread and Circus]

21. Sad but probably true.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

24. yes

[moondust]

25. Exactly.

[KansDem]

26. HRC = MOTS

"More Of The Same"

[Red Knight]

27. If Bernie were not in this race

You can bet she'd tone down the progressive talk so that later she doesn't have to swim back so hard to the center for the general election. We don't have to argue about this--we'll see if it happens if she wins. And yet--progressives who vote for her would accept that as, "politics'.

Somehow if Bernie won I don't see him drifting toward the center. I see him staying true to his beliefs. Whatever happens, happens.

But Bernie is who he is.

Is Hillary that centrist? Or progressive?

How would she really govern?