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In reply to the discussion: To the people who keep saying "get over it" about the far-left's sabotage of our nation: [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,178 posts)Maybe your definition of "the far left" is different than mine. When I was growing up the far left was Mao tse tung and Karl Marx. For them Stein and Sanders are both way too capitalistic.
There is no 'far left' force left in this country if they ever existed. Here Republicans and obviously some Democrats even, define "the far left" as those wanting to move more towards a Swedish style mix of capitalist/socialist, where government, through taxation, takes care of funding all the social needs, and private industry is free to work on every other consumer need.
And some are so sick of how long it is taking to join the rest of the planet for things like some form of single payer health care that they get frustrated and turn to third parties. These are not 'far left' these are progressives. But now, if you simply want to join the rest of the human race, so that your country can move forward and have those benefits as well, you are some kind of radical far leftie.
Its easy, and lazy, to lump everyone that didn't vote for Hillary into one big boat and simply say they all "bought the lies about Hillary". That would be disingenuous. The right fell for lies, about her emails being such a big deal, or the Clinton Foundation scooping money illiegally, or even things like they murdered Seth Rich, or she ran a child prostitution ring from a pizza parlor.
The 'far left' as you call them had different issues against her. It wasn't about lies, it was about her history. She was establishment, helped start the DLC made up of CEOs. Her and her husband helped veer the party right in a failed attempt to win over conservative voters and has generally catered to Wall Street, her Iraq war vote, her transparent, opportunist flip flopping on issues like the TPP, or gay marriage, or the $15 wage. It wasn't her personally, it was what, and who's interests, she represented.
I obviously, in here, must add that while I think these things are true, the Dotard was much more dangerous to have in power. But I wanted to spell it out for you that whomever you think of as "the far left" dismissed, as Bernie did, things like the fake email scandal, Benghazi, murder and child prostitution. That was what the deplorables fell for. Progressives on the left side of the scale, had and have much more practical concerns.