My swan song, come get your grave dancing on, if that's your thing.

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306. See—but that's the problem

Because HRC and the majority of leaders in our party have been either against or late to the table on everything you list.

Here's her record:
She was inexcusably late for gay marriage.
Was against legalized marijuana until a few months ago. (Oh wait—she's for "medical" marijuana, which is always a safe thing to say.)
Wants to tweak SS but not by raising the cap—until now and then only sometimes.
What the heck does she ever say about insurance reform? Guess you mean the ACA even though the insurance companies wrote that bill.
She even says waffly things about "choice" after 7 months—so it is between a woman and her doctor except…..
She was not a "champion" of 15 an hour until a few weeks ago.

Until recently she's supported the TPP and Fracking.

The country/us people are to the left of HRC so I'm hard pressed to lay that liberalism at the feet of the current Democratic Party which is choosing her as their leader.

Do you know that a recent study finds that 70 to 90% of white people under age thirty in this country support Bernie?
And that 40% of black people under thirty support him?
These young people are why the country is moving liberal—not because of the Democrats.

Agree with you about Russ and Elizabeth and Zephyr—but they are outliers in a party that's become cored out. The party itself has not at all become more liberal. Since the Clinton formation of the DLC it's become ever more rightward and Wall Street obeisant.