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In reply to the discussion: Hillary could be the final nail in the middle-class coffin. [View all]JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Is that why none of the Republican candidates are for it? And to clarify: "I believe that there's got to be a healthy tension among all of our institutions in society, and that the market is the driving force behind our prosperity, our freedom in so many respects to make our lives our own, but that it cannot be permitted just to run roughshod over people's lives as well."
Look, I'm a die-hard progressive, but the reason progressives barely get elected is because the progressive base will make enemies out of a candidate who agrees with them 90% of the time just because it's not 100%. I'm all for a wide open primary, may the best candidate win, but if our preferred candidates don't win the primary, the only thing a temper tantrum is going to result in is a Republican president. One which we'll be lucky to agree with us on 3% of the issues.
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