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[Algernon Moncrieff]

86. Some response thoughts

When people only care about individual politicians and not underlying economic, political and social problems that produce the government they so despise, there is nothing that can be done. Any real activism has to be organized elsewhere. The place has become a waste land.

There have been times when I've deluded myself into thinking that activism can spring from this site, but I have to remind myself that it's an internet message board. While it's interesting at times, the best that it can do is to inspire folks to support causes IRL. This place is different than it was in 2006, when the common cause was the defeat of Bush and ending the war in Iraq.

The only thing that interests them, i have discovered the hard way, is defeating Hillary Clinton.

I mentioned 2006 and the Iraq war. Some DUers will not forgive Hillary for her Iraq war vote. Others feel that Hillary is a pawn of Wall Street, and will continue to support policies supporting the wealthiest Americans. In condemning this, these DUers equate Hillary with Republicans. Strangely, I rarely see this level of venom directed at Chuck Schumer.

They just want to keep a single woman from becoming president and target ordinary Democratic voters. many women, people of color, and LGBT, as the enemy.

You kind of lost me here. If you mean "a single woman" as in any woman, I'd have to disagree inasmuch as many of them support Elizabeth Warren. If you mean "a single woman" as in an unmarried woman, I think Hillary is still technically married to Bill.