How you know America is not a center-right country, far to the left of Hillary:

[BlueStreak]

2. Everything you say is true. There is no doubt the country is to the left of Clinton/Obama and 90%

of Congress. Every poll that talks about public policy issues in an unbiased way that is separated from the personalities, shows VERY strong support for the progressive positions. And to the transitional ones about climate, education, health care, gun safety etc etc etc, we can now add minimum wage. There is absolutely no doubt.

So why is it that our media and our "representatives" take such far-right mega-corporation positions?

The question answers itself. And unfortunately there is no way to stop that without stopping the money flowing into the election system.

And there is no way to stop that without replacing at least one of the evil 5 on the SCOTUS.

And to do that, we must elect a President in 2016 that will nominate justices that are nowhere near Scalia, Roberts, Alito, et al.

So we are left with the dilemma that Hillary has a good chance of winning the Presidency. For all the things I distrust or disagree about her, I do believe that her choice in Justices would end the reign of terror the current court has visited on us. And it is very likely that one of those evil 5 will leave the court before the end of Hillary's first term (Scalia and Kennedy would be 84). To me, that really is the very most important thing we have to accomplish. I do not believe we can elect a real progressive in 2016, but if Hillary can flip the court, we can do that in 2020 or 2024 -- and at least limit the damage from 2017 to 2021.

The real campaign is at least 9 months away. If circumstances create a legitimate opening for a viable progressive candidate in that time, I will support that candidate vigorously. But absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor -- I don't believe there will be such an opening.