2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I'm Canceling My Subscription to Sunshine Patriot Thom Hartmann's Program [View all]TM99
(8,352 posts)are living in an ideological fantasy world. They honestly believe that somehow if only a Democrat wins, then they can fight the neoliberalism and change it. They can somehow change the party.
The party changed when it embraced the Clintons, the DLC, and neoliberalism 30 years ago. It is not going back to the progressive left. Clinton will never be a progressive because she never was a progressive. She will continue if not complete the total right ward shift of the political spectrum in this country.
LOTE voting is such a modern phenomena. It never occurred to American voters up until the 1990's that we had to vote against the other party. We voted for the party that instead represented us best. Sometimes the left won, and sometimes the right one. Sometimes Democrats votes for Reagan. And sometimes Republicans voted for Clinton. The lines finally got blurred when we moved from statesmen and honorable opponents to cults of personality and narcissistic displays of power. Ask most whites what the remember about Reagan, and they will say he won the cold war. Ask most AA's what they remember about Bill Clinton, and they will say playing the saxophone on Arsenio Hall instead of Sister Soujah.