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In reply to the discussion: Elizabeth Warren Comes Down Hard Against Global Warming, Separates Herself From Hillary Clinton [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)It's not a question, really, of "not as bad," it's that people believe half-truths, they perpetrate them, and they ascribe nasty motives without basis in fact. People who believe that shit don't "know her very well" at all.
The left is not going to win this election. Go ahead and pull out your gun (everyone in America has one, it seems) and shoot the messenger, but that's the truth. The best anyone can hope for is a left-leaning centrist, because the USA is not a "left" nation. In fact, the country is usually described as "center-right," mostly because of the whole "religion wars" issues (which don't really affect most peoples' daily lives, unless the religious people start fucking with choice--but that is a different issue entirely).
Clinton is not "dancing with Goldman Sachs" nor is she "thumbing her nose at the left" but those catch-phrases are real groovy to rile up the beansprout brigade. People like HRC for the reasons you see in the videos I've offered--she speaks plainly to real people with everyday issues. Lower taxes on the middle class, raise them on the rich, health care for all, affordable higher education...these are things that she can deliver on. These are things people want.