I want the Democrats to win. I don't like Hillary. They're not mutually exclusive.

[Armstead]

To the Hilary supporters.

Can you please give the "For her or against us" rhetoric a rest?

I don't like Hillary because she represents a faction of the Democratic Party that I believe is antithetical to both liberal and progressive goals.

She represents a status quo that has enabled power and wealth to become increasingly concentrated over the last few decades. She represents a dilution of what the Democratic Party once stood for -- and a capitulation to the forces of Corporate Conservatism.

IMO, we need to return to a more muscular and unapologetic liberal/progressive agenda to protect the interests of the majority in the United States and abroad. I also believe such a Proud Liberal platform would also be a key to electoral victory.

The basic instincts of individuals have not really moved so far to the right that the nation has become more conservative. Rather, IMO, the political spectrum has been shifted by the lack of support from the Democratic Party over the years.

The surrender (or sell out) by the Democratic Party of the interests of the middle, working and poor classes to the line of bullshit of the Corporate Conservatives is (again IMO) a major reason for the apathy and cynicism that most Americans now view the system with.

Rather than an embrace of conservatism, the real winner in this climate has been fatalism. "It's sucks, but no one's going to fight it or change it. Elections don't matter because politicians are all alike." And that leads to the ability by the GOP to use side-issues to appeal to the darker instincts of Americans.

That could be changed if the Democrats were to offer a real and clear alternative to the matrix of wealth and power epitomized by the unholy alliance of the Beltway Elite and Wall St. A return to Muscular Fighting Liberalism would demonstrate to a winning majority of Americans which party is really on their side.

But to do that we have to move away from the Politics of Triangulation and the double-talk and spin and corporate interdependency.

Oh, and also, being against the power of the Corporate Elite is NOT anti-business or socialism. Nor is it utopianism. Not is it excessively idealistic. It would simply be a return to the True Center of America, in which liberalism and conservatism are in more of a balance.

Anyone is free to agree or disagree with my premise. But those of us who are critical of Hillary Clinton and what she stands for are neither against a Democratic victory, or advocating that the Democrats fall on their swords for some unrealistic principles.

It is simply a belief that, as Paul Wellstone used to say, the "We can do better."