2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Choice Between Sanders and Clinton [View all]jwirr
(39,215 posts)are looking at it from the viewpoint of the south it has. Much of the south is red and that is where Hillary is coming from. She sees that the spectrum has turned because she started her political career as Bill's wife in the south where most states think red now.
But what she is missing is that the majority of the people in the US still like social security, medicaid and medicare. They still like FDR. The creators of the DLC convinced politicians that they had to move closer to the center to win and that was true in the south - although that did not even help the Democrats in the south. Yet they follow the line as if all of America was red.
But people are not really that dumb. Especially not the kids. We have been watching all of the money that used to make things here work go to an endless war based on lies. We have watched the trickle down theory move the money upwards for the last 40 years. We have watched the Rs disrupt the congress for many years and get nothing that is needed done. We have watched good jobs move overseas with the help of our own government for the last 40 years.
Voters are not dumb - I do not believe that anyone who has been awake the last 40 years does not know that these ideas do not work. We need change and I do not see anyone other than Bernie offering that.