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[JCanete]

157. Or you could be frustrated with the party for not going more populist and capturing these votes.

Maybe that helped elect republicans. People could play this game all day, hell, probably all score or for the next 50 years, and it gets us nowhere.

I see no actual political benefit for not doing so, except of course for the money. The money though, is the problem. A lot of it is the same money that really wants republicans elected but will accept a moderate democratic plan B, should their GOP option fall out of public favor. That money dictates far too much. Our conciliatory language with Wall Street and big business in general makes us look like we are working for them, even if we are instead, trying to find some middle ground...that middle ground isn't where we need our politicians to be.

Why did it take so long for Clinton and the DNC to adjust their policy to reflect some of the leftmost citizen's interests? why not come out with those in the first place? Why put so much daylight between left-wing candidates and the mainstream Democratic party, when those policy goals are just plain better, more inspiring and not at all mechanically impractical?

I'm not saying the people who didn't vote for Clinton were right. I think they were wrong. I just understand the calculations of the more thoughtful ones among them, and why they feel like these middling approaches are both hard to trust and ultimately ineffective and damaging.