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In reply to the discussion: You won't see Hillary Clinton in the same light ever again [View all]Chan790
(20,176 posts)I have a litmus test of positions, mostly economic, that to me define a Democrat. If you don't meet the test, to my mind, you're not a Democrat. I won't support you, I won't vote for you, I will work against you to drum you out of the race and preferably out of politics so that in the future real Democrats can get elected.
I think more rank-and-file Democrats should hold an internally-consistent ideal-model in our elected officials and candidates of what it means to be an office-holding member of the Democratic party...versus to merely think you're a Democrat. We must become defiant and loud in voicing the words "You're not a Democrat." to candidates that don't meet those ideals. They don't get to decide they're Democrats nor to define what it means to be a Democrat, we as an electorate decide.
To me, Hillary Clinton is not a Democrat. She's a filthy centrist technocrat with center-right economics. I don't vote for filthy centrist technocrats with center-right economics.
The only decision from her I will ever support is the one to hang it up and retire into charitable work.