If HRC runs in 2016, who should be the pro-worker, pro-peace, pro-justice candidate in the race?

[Ken Burch]

77. OK, so it doesn't have to be a white male

It doesn't have to be a "pro-business" hawk, either-the voters aren't demanding that we stay in the Middle East indefinitely.

And HRC's world view is essentially that of a privileged white male anyway...she can't identify with the powerless or the poor or the Rainbow in any meaningful sense and support things like "free trade" and letting Wall Street get away with all its mega-graft. When you're in the 1%...you're not GOING to "fight the power&quot the only ones in that class who EVER did were FDR and RFK, and there aren't ever going to be rich rebels like them again). And there can't ever be any such thing as a progressive or feminist war-we already know bombing Iran can't help women in that country, for example).

Why assume that voters want us to run a "more of the same-long live the rich and the generals" campaign? That they want no real alternative to the status quo on foreign policy or economics? That they STILL want labor, the poor and the activists kept totally out in the cold? We're not in 1992 anymore, y'know(and it wasn't an unchallenged conclusion that we had to run on a Great Repentance platform to win then).

And we can assume that HRC won't act on anything Elizabeth Warren believes in...there's no way she could serve on all those corporate boards and still favor any constraints at all on corporate power.

You really need to re-read your post for arrogance...your tone is exactly the sort of thing that would provoke another third-party candidacy(which is the last thing we need). The time when we could assume that the presidential nomination HAD to be reserved for an bland, anti-activist, "don't rock the boats" centrist is gone...and so is the time when it could be legitimate for the establishment of the party to demand that everyone just accept that the nominee has to be a bland centrist hawk IN ADVANCE, which is what you're doing.

We simply aren't "a center-right country" anymore. And we no longer need to run defensive "shut the hell up" campaigns.