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

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313. No, they don't. Not enough of them yet.

Most Americans don't understand clearly what has happened to the Democratic Party, and that's by design. They don't understand the extent to which it has been hijacked by predatory corporate interests, or to what extent Hillary Clinton is the poster child for those interests. Those who follow politics closely do, but not most Americans.

Barack Obama ran as a populist candidate of "Hope and Change." Until recently, Hillary painted herself primarily as a champion of women and progressive causes. The MSM lies incessantly about the positions of the parties. We are told that corporatist Barack Obama is a Marxist, for god's sake, and you hear whining about his "liberalism" on all mainstream media. The MSM is routinely filled with garbage comparing "liberal" Democrats with "conservative" Republicans, even though both parties are now owned by corporatists with virtually the same agenda on economics, war, and the police state. Even here at DU we are repeatedly insulted by absurd propaganda claiming that Hillary is a progressive or a liberal.

Third Way Democrats routinely lie their way through campaigns pretending to be traditional Democrats. That's how the infiltration was accomplished. You adopt a brand because it's popular, because of what people *expect* to see inside...but you change the contents without changing the label. The routine MO of this administration has been to give very public speeches extolling progressive positions, and then to turn around and do exactly the opposite. It's a midterm election year, so we're already being treated to multiple recent examples of that:

Lies upon lies upon lies
http://metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5353985

Most Americans recognize her name, and they know she is a Democrat, and that's about it. They may remember years of carefully crafted speeches pretending to be liberal, focusing on social issues that people associate with Democrats. Ask a random sample of Americans about NAFTA or the TPP or the TISA, though, and you will get blank stares. They know something is terribly wrong with government right now, but they still trust Democrats a little more than they trust Republicans. They are angry at Democrats, too, but their anger is vague, because the MSM tells them that Democrats are still their champions for the people, and they are too busy working like dogs to survive in the new corporate economy to follow what the policies actually are. The vast majority of them have only recently begun to understand, if they have learned yet at all, what has really been done to our party, how thoroughly it has been done, and what she really represents.

It is only very recently that she's started to *publicly* associate herself with some of the Bush policies that she has relentlessly defended under this administration. Why she's starting to run rightward now is a curious development and an interesting topic all by itself, as we were discussing below. But at this point....her high marks are primarily name recognition as a Democrat.