2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie supporters, a plea. "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes". [View all]djean111
(14,255 posts)And I sincerely doubt a Hillary SCOTUS appointment will be anywhere near being liberal.
As far as I can tell, thinking a politician who enthusiastically, and in reality, - no campaign blather here - is for war and fracking and the Third Way, to name a few NOT LIBERAL things - is going to magically start being liberal, once in office, is pathetic. And it is more pathetic to think that others will believe that.
CU gave Hillary the ability to amass huge amounts of campaign donations, and huge PACS that do the dirty work, like that disgusting Brock. You think she will give that up? bwahahahahahaha! Tell me another story!
DWS is just a very visible symptom of the Third Way's takeover of the Democratic Party. Before this nasty campaign, if one did not live in Florida, most were not aware that DWS was openly supporting and campaigning for her GOP buddies. The entire membership of the New Democrat Coalition are Third Way advised DINOs. And I am supposed to be naive and stupid enough to think that Hillary is going to do anything liberal, if in office, or that choosing a liberal as VP would make a damned bit of difference.
She and Bill would just finish what they started, or tried to start - gutting welfare, privatizing/weakening Social Security, giving Wall Street free rein, with the added nastiness of a demonstrated fondness for wars. Skinner's rules would not keep me away from DU - it is the prospect of seeing "Democrats" support and even praise what were once considered RW stances on the issues.