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In reply to the discussion: The question is not 'would I support Hillary'? [View all]MisterP
(23,730 posts)when pressed the "born-again progressive" mask will slip and she'll start cheerleading war or proposing amendments to ban flag-burning; Clinton could "campaign left and rule right" because we didn't know him
ideologically-mixed or -weak voters will of course favor Republican over Republican-lite, and they vote or people who *aren't* half lib and half con even if the voters' politics would seem to indicate that
occasional voters won't be whipped into anything close to a frenzy of turnout--they'll see a 70-year-old careerist who offers nothing notable and whose motto is "America owes me its votes" overseeing a 77-year-old party House leader (who backs off on the important issues and exemplifies all that's gleaming and yuppie about SF) and a 78-year-old weathervane in the Senate who'd bargain away his own relatives
everyone from conservative to lefty (excluding RW) will see a money-centered party whose legitimacy is based on accomplishments from over 80 or 50 that they can never seem to actually get around to defending non-rhetorically, that has slogans rather than goals it'll fight for, whose complicity and indolence is defended by hypocritical online bullies and smarmy speeches calling critics conspiracy theorists, that insists that its campaign planning is the bestest evar and to ignore massive losses, which brags about its differences with the GOP only to make sure that candidates similar to the GOP keep getting in, and which goes into every electoral cycle pre-blaming internal critics for the impending loss
the GOP is made of corporate shills, people who think Medicare's the Koch Brothers rewarding them for being white, warmongers, people who still think the media's run from Moscow, and fundies, but what they want they at least make a move towards instead of just throwing voters a few scraps while dismantling the economy