Hillary should forget about reviving the DLC playbook- the RW will *never* accept her

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34. And a big chunk of us on the left were pushed to support John Edwards, instead of Obama or Hillary..

... who the PTB I might argue knew behind the scenes already they could pull the plug on at any time, basically killing off the means from more of a challenge from someone like a Dennis Kucinich Super Tuesday and onward, who at least might have shifted the dialogue of the campaign more to the left so that Obama wouldn't just talk nebulously in many cases about "hope and change" without getting pinned down to details that would force him to either acknowledge he wasn't going to do what the left really wanted, or force him to follow through on some things the left wanted which he didn't do later. Here' an image from that time where I and many others then sensed the game was rigged then.



The bottom line is that on non-social issues, which are intentionally de-emphasized by "those in the middle" or our corporate media, that the left really cares about, are also issues that many independents and those even on the right care about such as accountability for the banksters, political spending on campaigns, student loan debt, and a bunch of other things. Ralph Nader highlights this in his new book "Unstoppable", and I think ultimately, if we want someone to lead who will fix this economy and not just have it serve the 1% oligarchs, we need to focus on pushing those running to deal with these issues that the politicians and corporate media don't want discussed. That is what will give us the changes we need.

Hillary won't be the candidate to lead us there. She's a part of that machine that has screwed us over the last 30+ years.