Left concern about HRC is NOT "hatred"...it's about what we stand for as a party and a country

[Ken Burch]

100. I don't feel like a big fish in a small pond. I try to avoid feeling like a fish, if possible.

It's just that I think that I have as much right to express my views as anyone else. This has never been about MY ego, or anyone else's ego. Some people post here simply because this is a place where people get to post and where at least some degree of free speech occurs. For some reason, the idea that a person could express their views without any desire to advance their prospects in life, that some could speak simply out out of sincere convictions about the issues of the day, without any hidden agenda of self-promotion appears to be ether unimaginable or even threatening to you. Why is that?

Are you saying that starting threads here should be considered a privilege? That only a tiny few should be able to make their voices heard? That the ability to speak out has to be earned, rather than simply existing as a natural right shared by all as a natural right?

It's puzzling that you seem to feel so obsessed with dismissing and silencing those you agree with. That feeling can't possibly help your candidate, who will have to have massive progressive support, if she is nominated, to have any chance of winning at all(since she can't be elected on middle-of-the-road votes, since we live in a country where the middle-of-the-road no longer really exists).

And I'm not sure what you mean when you state that you are "a realist". Please elaborate. Why should support for the most conservative candidate we could possibly nominate in 2016 be considered any more "realistic" than anything else?

Final point...in 1970(the analogous moment to this)Ed Muskie was considered "inevitable". In 1986, Mario Cuomo was considered inevitable. Inevitability ain't what it used to be.