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In reply to the discussion: Okay. So what if it's Hillary against Trump? What happens? [View all]EdwardBernays
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that is all.
Now to counter:
- Truth isn't propaganda. You're just so desperate for your reality to be true you can't see what's actually happening around you.
- There's no connection between 2012 and now
- People wanting ACTUAL progressive candidates aren't "trouble" makers. I know the very idea of an actual progressive candidate scares you, but that's what a lot of progressives want.
For the record, progressives don't:
- take millions from companies that they're presiding over while in office
- take million from special interests that have no history of looking out for the electorate
- lie about transparency
- consider billions in weapons sales to a country with a poor human rights record a "personal priority"
- refuse to releases what they've said unless Republicans also do
- promote welfare reform that screwed over the poorest in society
- pay lip service to human rights while taking money from human rights abusers
etc etc etc.
There's a reason why a majority don't trust Hillary and a reason why someone that calls himself a democratic socialist is drawing thousands to his rallies, which the center right democrat is barely able to draw hundreds - people want change, they don't want a political insider, they want a real progressive and they want optimism instead of compromised politics as usual.
As for "stupid" - many many people think that a vote for Hillary in the primaries is a vote for President Trump in the GE... how stupid would a party have to be to nominate their weaker candidate, because an obsessive cult of personality? Pretty stupid.
I would also say, that when you have to stoop to attack my "position," by attacking my username (and mischaracterizing why I chose it) it means you've lost.
When name calling is all you have, you have nothing.