2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Democratic Party has proven what a gutless mess it has become [View all]Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)the mainstream Democrats have been giving variations on the same lame excuses for 15 years now.
"We can't fight for Florida because we'll look like sore losers."
"We can't accomplish this because Bush will veto it."
"We have to vote for the lousy Republican bill because it was going to pass anyway."
"We have Congress, but we still have Bush, so all we can do is react to the Republicans."
"We have the White House but not Congress."
"We can't even propose single-payer because it's not politically feasible."
"We can't pull in the military-industrial complex, because terrorism."
"We can't raise taxes on the rich, because the Republicans will say nasty things about us."
"The Republicans are offended at what we said. We have to apologize!"
"We have to renew the Patriot Act because bipartisanship."
"We have to run DINOs in red states (or no one at all) because a real Democrat can't win there."
"No, we have to eliminate Dean and Kucinich and nominate Kerry, because it's his turn."
Hillary Clinton is the poster child for those atittudes.
I know some people who support her, but they fall into two camps: 1) "It's time we had a woman president" and 2) "It's her turn."