Five Reasons No Progressive Should Support Hillary Clinton

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140. I am a "Progressive"

have always been and will always be.

If, as is likely, Hillary is the Dem candidate for President, I will wholeheartedly support her and vote for her in 2016. Period.

I supported - and voted for - George McGovern in 1972, Jimmy Carter in 1976, again in 1980, for Walter Mondale in 1984, for Michael Dukakis in 1988, and for Al Gore in 2000 (also for John Kerry in 2004). I was unable to vote for Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Hubert Humphrey in 1968 because I had turned 21 - when that was the voting age requirement - while living and working abroad and had no previous voting state track record before returning to the US in 1970. I would have voted for Humphrey in 1968, had I been able to. Johnson didn't need my vote in 1964, but had I been eligible then, I would have voted for him. I only missed eligibility by a matter of months.

I read and heard similar rhetoric by so-called Dems against every single one of these candidates. In no case was the GOP alternative a better one, although two GOPers that I still wholeheartedly despise - Nixon and Bush I - were not as uniformly awful as the others.

I can unequivocally state that if all so-called "Progressives" had consistently supported these Dem candidates, despite none of them having totally acceptable "purist" progressive stances, this nation would not now be in the dire state it is.

So please Dems, stop doing the GOP's work for them. Please!