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In reply to the discussion: Here's the thing - don't expect me to be enthused about someone who cozys up to a mass murderer. [View all]dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)with the right-facing red arrow. They think (and so far are correct) that the left has nowhere else to go, and are working behind the scenes to make sure it stays that way. This is how our current Democratic Party deals with the left, we are left out.
They are much more concerned with courting the so-called center, and conservative women, some of which they believe can be separated from whichever anti-woman RW male the GOP nominates. So in my eyes it's more of the triangulation we have seen so much of, and which leaves the left without any representation whatsoever.
I think this campaign could be where the Democratic Party finally jumps the shark, it will stand for little more than being the more efficient managers of a corrupt industrial empire.
She did pay us some lip-service in her candidacy announcement yesterday, which to me only means it is primary season rather than the general election.