2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Blaming Sanders: Why Democratic Party Unity is Officially Impossible [View all]GRhodes
(162 posts)evidence of progress economically, environmentally, or in regards to infrastructure, since about 1980? Me neither, regression across the board. Obviously not for many people supporting Clinton, but for the general public, working class people, the poor, regression. Saying that she stands for incremental progress requires evidence that people like her have delivered incremental improvements (not evidence that she has done some okay things, that she can prove her policies result in an overall net improvement. I know the data, they haven't for most), and it also requires evidence that moderate solutions will do anything other than make things less bad. Given that our problems are almost entirely structural, that argument isn't convincing.