2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Left’s Beef With Tim Kaine: Bernie’s supporters see a rebuke in Clinton's ‘safe’ VP pick [View all]auntpurl
(4,311 posts)I'm happy for her to go if that's Hillary decision.
You mention Hillary's "past behaviour" while also mentioning Senator Warren. Elizabeth Warren used to be a Republican, and yet Bernie supporters love her (or at least they did until she endorsed Hillary). But they cannot accept that Hillary has evolved on issues like gay marriage, for example.
The Democratic platform is the most liberal one we've ever put together. Hillary did a speech last night in Tampa where she mentioned a Muslim Imam working with LGBT survivors in Orlando after the tragedy there. Can you imagine anyone who isn't a true liberal putting that in a speech, especially on the SAME DAY as an attack in Munich?
True progressives are forward-looking, compassionate people who know (often because they work as activists/social workers, etc) that the most disadvantaged members of our society are the ones who would be the most hurt by a Trump presidency. They would never let their own ideology lead them to make selfish choices that will hurt others far more than themselves. They care what will happen to AAs, Latinos, Muslims, LGBT, the working poor, the poor, and women in the next 4 years. They care that all those groups, and ALL the rest of us, will be hurt for a generation by 3-4 SC picks that Trump will use to DECIMATE any social progress we've made in the past 40 years. Progressives practice love and kindness. Anyone who would try to sink Hillary's campaign just to watch it all burn is not a progressive. They are anarchists.