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In reply to the discussion: Dear Susan Sarandon: [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,658 posts)And have the audacity to criticize the Democratic party!!! I mean they are doing so well! Its not as if they've lost the Presidency, the House, the Senate, the SCOTUS, majority of Governorships, and local elections across the country.............oh wait.
I admire Susan. She has to take it from all sides and remains a strong woman who doesn't back down from her egalitarian principles. She's just a "limousine liberal"? Really? Some are using that RW meme? So how much money is deemed too much to have a say? I guess she shouldn't have been such a talent and success as an actress, then I guess she'd get more respect for her political views? Gee, I sure hope Hillary and Bill aren't too rich to fall into that category.
Laughable how much anger is spent on one woman, who altered the vote away from Hillary almost zero. This phony insinuation that somehow there were many many voters that were all gung ho to vote Hillary, including ex-Sanders supporters, but then heard Susan say something critical about the direction of the party being too cozy with the corporate class..and viola! they all did a 180. It wasn't Comey's email announcement, it wasn't Russian trolls working with Trump, it wasn't the MSM unfair coverage in that when it came to Hillary all they talked about were her emails and ignored her platform, and it wasn't their perpetual tongue bathing of everything Trump said or did.
It wasn't even the over 50% other white women that voted for Trump, it was the one female Hollywood actress that dared to stand up for her own principles. Do I wish she would have relented and held her nose if she had to, and voted for Hillary and told everybody that? (As Sarah Silverman did) Sure. But surely the party can tolerate a bit of constructive criticism from this one person, and still survive. It might even be....gasp.....beneficial to NOT do what the GOP do and actually be open to the possibility that the party could do a few things better.
If Hillary would have run a more progressive campaign from the start. If she would have been brave enough to embrace issues like Bernie did, example a $15 minimum wage, and had much the same platform as Bernie ran on, he probably wouldn't even have challenged her. And Susan would be behind her all the way, and no doubt she'd be lauded in here as a great Democrat, and a fine actress by the same ones that hate her now. Hillary chose to run as a DLC establishment candidate in an election when establishment was a bad word. But lets blame some actress that had a problem with that instead.