2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Something is wrong with the Democratic Party [View all]DirkGently
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And it is WILDLY off base to suggest that that "progressivism" writ large means economic issues -- which are actually universal -- at the expense of social issues.
What I see with this line of reasoning is a desire among corporate friendly Dems to conveniently sacrifice economic progress by claiming social causes as their sole prerogative and throwing economic progress out the window so as to keep the monied interests happy. The attack on Sanders, whose civil rights cred is 100 times that of Clinton's, on the basis he wasn't strong enough on racial justice, was a truly wacky attempt by terrified corporatists to find a way to protect an imaginary coalition whereby social issues would be the ONLY progressivism required to win.
That approach just fell flat on its face.