2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Every time the party's left raises their little pointy heads and makes noises....this stuff happens. [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)on my ballot except Clinton. I know the Democrats running for lower-level federal and state offices. I may not always agree with them, but they are not arrogant and condescending toward questioning liberals like me.
Hillary thinks she can run things without people like me. It's all about the "I" for her. She tells us that it's all about compromising on issues, that we have to compromise on the issues, that that is the only way to get things done. At least that is what she says. In reality, we cannot compromise on issues of great moral importance. Racism, matters of great economic importance to large numbers of Americans like jobs, union rights, women's rights, children's rights and issues like a woman's right to choose and healthcare for all. There is a long list with racist laws, racist prison and racist policing especially at the local level at the top of the list with women's issues and seniors' issues coming in a close second. These things cannot, I repeat cannot be compromised. There is a moral imperative.
You can work around Republican recalcitrance. But you cannot accept the repugnant. We have done that too long. We have to speak out against injustice and change the laws that permit it.