Clinton, Dems embrace a progressive vision with little resistance

[DonViejo]

Bernie Sanders won’t be the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate this year, but his impact on Democratic politics is hard to miss. The Washington Post reported yesterday on the party’s new national platform.

If party platforms matter – and the jury is out on that – what happened this weekend in a sweltering Hilton conference room was remarkable. The Democratic Party shifted further to the left in one election than perhaps since 1972, embracing once-unthinkable stances on carbon pricing, police reform, abortion rights, the minimum wage and the war on drugs. It did so with very little ideological resistance and a lot of comity between the supporters of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.

“We have produced by far the most progressive platform that this party has seen in multiple generations,” said Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy (D), co-chairman of the platform committee.

It’s worth pausing to appreciate the irony: it wasn’t long ago that Sanders’ campaign team demanded Malloy’s ouster, considering him too moderate and too supportive of Clinton to oversee the platform process fairly. And yet, there was the governor, announcing the progressives’ victory.



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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/clinton-dems-embrace-progressive-vision-little-resistance?cid=eml_mra_20160711

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1. I guess for a corporation like NBC, the platform is rather progressive.

However, I think we still need to get rid of fracking (which is worse than coal) and the TPP (which allows corporations to supersede sovereign govts and a "democracy" of The American Citizen)...But $15.00/ hr for min wage would be the pay increase so many Americans need NOW! And that's a good thing for candidates who call themselves democrats running in our party, to champion.

And for certain, we really need to work on bringing the American people in line with other Western Democracies, especially in the "wealthiest nation", when it comes to healthcare, education, labor rights, and ability to be happy.