2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What specific POLICY POSITIONS show Sec. Clinton to be "Not Liberal" or "Not a Democrat?" [View all]snowy owl
(2,145 posts)I don't know how old you are but the dems thanks to the DLC are now in a position where Republicans used to be. We want our party back to its liberal ideas and me, I want progressive ideas which is Bernie. Perhaps you haven't run into the Republican platform in the fifties which is further left than the democratic platform of the nineties and now without Bernie.
So, yes, HRC is republican just as the party has taken over the republican spectrum compromising to rip the safety net.
But you won't see it because you are loyal and blinded. I've voted republican, democratic and even green. I am able to be flexible, follow issues, inform myself, and change as our country's needs change. Clinton is at the very least centrist and not liberal and certainly no progressive. Her Goldwater Girl training still influences her choices. I'm personally tired of war. I want someone who thinks out of the box, has institutional memory (just as I do) and wants our democracy back from the Koch Brothers.
If you think that is Hillary, you haven't read about her very much. Start with the Sunlight Foundation