PPP: Hillary Could Carry Texas in 2016

[dreamnightwind]

40. The time for this debate is now

Pretty much every time throughout the 4-year cycle, I'm told it's not the right time to advocate for better Democrats, that I need to fall in line and support the centrists or I'm supporting Republicans. Seems like there is no better time than now to push back against this. No elections on the horizon, this is when the future is made.

Public polls have given a lot of support for a number of progressive issues. So we have a great context in which to come up with candidates who can deliver on those issues, or who will die trying. In the end, win or lose, fighting for the correct policies makes it more likely that those policies will eventually prevail. Triangulation and centrism just enable this seemingly endless slide to the right and transfer money up to the 1%, the opposite of what needs to happen.

I really hope DU can help move things back to the left, it could be a great force for good if we could stipulate that we have that objective.