2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Those Who Say They Won't Support the Eventual Nominee -- Consider This... [View all]Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)I'm not a Democrat, and I have zero loyalty to that party. I have loyalty to progressive principles, and thus indirectly to politicians that embrace and advance those principles. The Democratic Party is moving away from my principles, I suspect for the purpose of raw political expediency. Party loyalists, which I suspect constitute the majority here, seem to have little issue with that...and that's their perfect right. But that movement towards the center (center-right, in the case of some) moves the party away from the not-insignificant minority of folk like me here.
A Hillary win in the primary is a dreadful development, not just because she fails to embrace progressive principles in a remotely convincing manner, but because I believe she can't win in November (and that the GOP will retain control of the Senate if she runs, due in large part to her considerable motivation of the GOP base).