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

[HereSince1628]

252. I think there are many people like me, people can remember endorsing

a Democratic party as a force working for things such as social and economic justice for the masses. Things identified with Liberals and the Left.

Now the democrats weren't historically always deeply into social and economic justice for all, particularly in certain parts of the country.

So I know that the experience of the first 30 years of my life was rather unusual. But the issues that resonated with me, and were taken on by the democrats... promoting environment and workplace safety, civil rights (at that time largely ethnic and women's rights)/social justice, social supports for the poor and disabled...were the things that brought me into the Left, rather than my mother's Republican party.

It's not pleasing to see the issues I care for derided by pragmatic interests of triangulators for whom winning was and remains everything, and for whom serving the public interest is...well... basically unnecessary after election because people like me 'have no other place to go' and the real campaign money is in the hands of those who control America's corporate interest.

It's not pleasing. It's disappointing. My life was timed to link me to good results coming from the struggle for progress by the left. The pragmatism of the center-right seems like spinelessness and limp-wristedness. Its impossible to be enthusiastic about candidates I strongly associate with it.