If nominated, HRC has an obligation to STAY clearly to the left of Bill.

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7. What you want is not an obligation

Really, some folks in here seem more concerned with defeating the Third Way in the Democratic party than they are with beating the Republicans. Anything not sufficiently left of center is dismissed as being equivalent to a far-right position.

It's bullshit, I'm a centrist because hard-left economic prescriptions tend not to work any better than hard-right ones. I grew up in the European democratic socialist country and while I would like the US to become more like EU countries in many respects it's not an automatic win for everyone by any means - socialist policies often result in negative economic outcomes of their own that can be just as bad as capitalistic ones. There is no single economic ideology that yields a demonstrably superior outcome in every circumstance.

One reason the far left keeps finding itself marginalized is its self-absorbed pomposity. HRC has an 'obligation' to hold a particular position! 'It would be intolerable' for her to do otherwise! 'There simply can't be any good reason' for anything else! Has it not occurred to you that if you want to persuade people you need to come up with actual reasons for why you have drawn those conclusions? If you no longer see a meaningful difference between a reactionary like Trump and a bland centrist like Hillary, then that does not speak well for your judgment.