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In reply to the discussion: I'd prefer to see Elizabeth Warren as our next president. But if Hillary Clinton [View all]vi5
(13,305 posts)However, I'm afraid there is just no way we're going to get a liberal or even slightly left of center democratic candidate any time over the next 20-30 years, barring some sort of major uprising or revolution. The powers that be in the Democratic party have become too entrenched in money and wall street and business interests.
The Democratic party has pretty much now bought into some of the most destructive and basic tennets of Republican thinking. Taxes are bad, unions are bad, public spending is bad, the private sector is great, public schools are in decline and it's teachers unions fault, abortion is icky, etc. etc.
It's going to take a fuck of a lot for us to reverse course on this, and electing Hillary will be nothing more than entrenching this third way thinking even more than Obama has.