We can do better than Hillary Clinton.

[Douglas Carpenter]

170. OK! HILLARY IS 1000X better than ANY Republican. But she is not going to move the country forward

Because she simply does NOT believe in that sort of thing. She may help hold on to some of the gains of the past. She might even pass a few nambey pambey reforms that no one will ever notice and no one will ever care about. But she is not going to be making a case for a new social contract where the wealth is more equitably distributed, where we have a greatly improved economic safety net, where we have REAL universal healthcare, where those who work hard can be guaranteed a livable wage, where workers and ordinary people have a real voice and real representation in the matters that most directly control their lives. Nor is she going to make a case to move America away from this unsustainable military empire that bankrupts our nation as it weakens our own interest. She is not going to champion those issues. Because she does not believe in them

Yes I know - the last time America ran a progressive was in 1972 and we lost by a landslide. But the first time the Republicans ran a modern conservative was in 1964 and they lost by a similar landslide. Did they just give up and decide it could not be done? NO! They went out and made their case and made their case and made their case and came back with a landslide win only 16 years later. So instead of just giving up on the progressive cause and just accepting that we are never going to really bring real change - why not learn from the conservatives and start making the case of Progressivism with a party leader who does believe in it? Who knows? That approach worked for the conservatives. It might even work for liberals and progressives.