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In reply to the discussion: How Not To Get The Best Possible Democratic Candidate For The White House! [View all]NanceGreggs
(27,835 posts).. speaking for the entire Dem Party - you deigned to speak for "We the People".
"Telling them NOW that if this is the only choice we have, we will not vote for her/him is a far better strategy in order to persuade them that they need to present a candidate people WANT if they want to win."
Who is "we"? If you are only speaking on your own behalf, why the reference to "we"? Who are the "people" who they - an entity still not identified - need to present a candidate to satisfy?
"We the people are supposed to be in charge of this democracy. Acting helpless and leaving up to politicians is an abdication of duty on the part of citizens."
Who are "We the PEOPLE" you refer to, and who appointed you as their spokesperson?
"A whole lot of Democrats are not happy with Hillary as their only choice."
Says who? You? If a "whole lot of Democrats are not happy with Hillary as their only choice" - (and again you fail to explain how someone who isn't even yet in the running is an 'only choice') - who are you to make such a statement without a single iota of proof that "a whole lot of Democrats" are happy or not happy with anything?
"Then let them know what we DO want and this time let them know we mean it!"
Again, who did you mean to refer to by "we"?
"See how often we are told when they push things like 'SS on the Deficit Table: 'but we would not get the (fill in the blank) vote if we didn't compromise!"
There's that pesky "we" again - did you mean "me"? Is that a typo?
"When we have the gall to point out broken campaign promises, we are told 'you should not have expected anything else ..."
"Shows one thing clearly, there is NO respect for Democrats who don't make their voices heard, they are merely taken for granted and told to 'go sit down and be quiet' and are then ignored."
Who are these Democrats who aren't making their voices heard? Seems a LOT of Democrats made their voices heard in 2008 - and again in 2012 - by electing and re-electing a Democrat to the White House. And a LOT of those same Democrats have made their voices heard by stating their support for Hillary's candidacy, should she choose to run.
So when you go on and on about "We the People" who are soooo dissatisfied with the Dem Party and its potential candidates, exactly WHO are you speaking on behalf of - other than yourself?
And if you are only speaking on behalf of yourself, why the use of the royal "we", as though you speak for everyone?