Reply #57: Here's my bottom line

[Armstead]

I've got to get back to work or I'll be worried about needing the safety net myself. :)

But in any case, here's my bottom line on this. Hillary is going to win for many reasons. She's going to win the primary and the general election. In this case, her seat is safe enough that a primary opponent who might prompt a real debat5e and force her to take some positions is a good thing.

In a larger sense, though, I could give you countless speifics in which Hillary and the "centrist" approach of the Democratic party establishment either ignores the substance of those issues and values, or actually advances policies that are contrary to them.

The centrists do the same to the basic message too. The core issue underlying almost every other specific issue is the extreme concentration of power and money in this country over the last 30 years, the growing income gap and the destruction of the middle class, and the excessive grasp that corporatations have acquired.

And on an even more basic levels, Democrats stopped challenging the basic "We're all in this together" values that he mentioned, and instead have echoed the GOP CONservative mantra of Profit Uber Alles.

I'll be happy to pick this up later if you want, because I believe it gets to the core of many other things and the real reason the Democratic Party is not as unified as it should be. But right now I gotta get back to work.