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In reply to the discussion: I've noticed some "progressives" seem to think Hillary owes them something [View all]BainsBane
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Someone demanded--today--that she speak out about Standing Rock. This was a return visitor from ratfuck underground, which openly rooted for Trump and continues to defend him.
Candidates aren't "selected." They are elected. They have to earn the votes. Bernie didn't. Hillary won the nomination by 3.75 million votes.
She doesn't owe you an apology, though she gave one. She fought hard, damn hard. She was by far the best candidate. But voters in the key states didn't chose her. She failed to do what no Democrat since Harry Truman has done: succeed a sitting president of his own party. I don't know if a different candidate would have changed that, but the fact is the person had to be able to earn enough votes to win a primary. And Clinton was the only one who did that.
I don't know what you think the party owes you, but I remember a lot of talk during the primary about certain people believing the DNC should do the work their candidate couldn't bother to, like registering votes, something that is always done by candidates and state parties. Yet apparently when there is a candidate who is superior to the rest of the human race backed by others convinced of their own superiority, the rest of the party is supposed to do the labor they think beneath them. ($200 million dollars but he couldn't bother to spend adequate funds on field staff and organization. Instead, his budget when overwhelmingly to corporate media buys. ) I saw the whole thing as a a stunning demonstration of entitlement, an entitlement undiminished by loss. The idea that the rest of us owed their candidate our votes only reinforces it.