2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Time for Clinton to forget about incorporating Bernie's supporters for awhile. [View all]beedle
(1,235 posts)to start her own little country on a small Island in the Pacific?
Republicans hate her, Independents hate her, now she wants the democratic left to hate her as well.
If she does this, the votes she gets in the primaries will be about all she gets in the GE.
Kim Kardashian could run as an independent and beat Hillary if that's the plan.
Independents are a bigger group than either Republicans or Democratic voters. Many of those Independents are only involved because of Bernie ... they wouldn't be involved in the first place if he wasn't running, and once he's out, especially based on a 'scorched earth' strategy by Hillary, they are not likely to vote for Hillary. I assume they will largely not vote, but it's possible that a good number of them will indeed decide to 'scorch the earth' right back at Hillary and vote for the Republican.
And I know, that will piss you off and cause you to call them all kinds of names, but many of these independents are independent because they don't see a lick of difference between the two parties ... they want upheaval and real change, and if they can't get sensible progressive chance with Sanders they might just decide that even 'bad change' will at least cause the comfortable 'centrist' Dems and Repubs to feel some of the pain they are feeling.
And given the attitudes of Clinton and many of her supporters, one can hardly blame them ... Yeah, it may make things worst, but I guess if they can't convince the establishment types to share the 'good times', they can at least force them to share in the 'bad times'.