Bernie's plans: It's not that they're liberal, it's that they're bunk

[highprincipleswork]

26. Let me put it this way - these are no more specific than Bernie's plans, 2 be honest. That disproves

the poster's major point right there.

Secondly, yes, they do sound alright. And very similar to Bernie's in many instances, if sometimes watered down. They sound fine.

And I've been making the point for a number of weeks now that not only could Hillary win the election, not only could she unify the party, not only could she be the first woman President, but she could be the first woman President as great as FDR - if only she would stay true to the Progressive roots of the Democratic Party as established mid 1900's.

Those of us who no longer believe in the Clinton mystique because we've seen past it, don't trust her to keep her word till the election is over, much less while in office.

It's one or both of two things - either the Clintons and the Democratic establishment don't believe the Reagan Revolution is now officially dead, declared dead in fact by none other than Donald Trump, or they simply are a bunch of pig-sucking Conservatives who want to be in bed with Wall Street. Because they keep going back that way, and they keep doing it in disgusting ways.

The DNC is currently disgusting, and I will never donate to them again in their present form.
The shenanigans around making sure people are enfranchised in every primary are disgusting, and totally unnecessary, unless you're clinging too tightly to what you feel is your destiny instead of simply winning a primary because you're better.
I don't want to vote for anybody because somebody else is worse or they are going to implode. I want to vote for somebody because they're clearly better.
I don't want to see a national convention torn apart because people feel underrepresented. Hillary and the Democratic Party should be making major inroads right now to make friends and peace with the Bernie camp. Instead they seem to be planning for war, and if that is their attitude I am quite sure they are going to get it and suffer for it along with the rest of us.

Hillary has pretty much been sticking and even expanding her Progressive policies, so far, and that's a good sign. But she also seems to be signaling to Wall Street that they've got nothing to worry about. That's troubling.

Finally, she's got an FBI investigation over her head, and to be honest I don't think that what she did is right or legal. That to me is a big problem hanging over all our heads and until it is verifiably over we are all in danger.

That's what I have to say. I really dislike people parroting what they've heard about Bernie's plans not being tight enough. They are plenty tight, and he believes in and is going for the right things. The main points of my post were that that's enough for me, and compounded with my airtight belief in his follow-through, that's what makes me a Bernie supporter.

I don't want to be fooled or disappointed by the Clintons again. If she becomes the nominee, I hope I won't be. And I'd like to invite you and other Progressives (if you consider yourself one) to communicate clearly with your candidate that our hopes and dreams are to some degree living and dying with her. She really could be great, truly great, or she could let us down, which I also think is the way she would be defeated.