2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Please, Democrats: Don’t Attack Bernie Sanders for Joining Your Party - Joan Walsh [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)It is based on all actions while governing throughout her career until the 2008 primary. After the hawkishness of her SOS tenure and her pushing of things like fracking and the TPP during that tenure, I think an honest assessment when adjusted from 2008 until the present will not show a more favorable outlook when the new update is released.
Economically she has always been a bootstrap "get a damn job and reduce welfare you lazy single mothers" and "don't raise the cap on SS" kind of politician in her deeds, and socially she didn't even like marriage equality until only very recently and felt Americans, hard working WHITE Americans were her best demographic.
Words and deeds do not always match, especially when someone is trying to get elected to an office in politics.
She'd have made a fine Moderate Republican back when such existed and were not evil, helpful even on social and even labor issues believe it or not - but not much of a Democrat from the standpoint of the era I came up in; when the New Deal, The Great Society, and Civil Rights were what we were standing for at the time, hell, we even started a war on poverty and may have won had the Vietnam war not nearly destroyed the country and both parties as we knew them. Then Reagan came, and with him Reagan Democrats that evolved into DLC Third Way Moderate Republicans that found a new home in the Democratic party while the Republicans morphed into an even more insane version of the John Birch Society.
There is no left really any more in this county, the best we have is center left, and the furthest to the left of that center left is Bernie Sanders who is a capitalist and not a socialist but at at least believes in a mixed economy that includes some elements of socialized aspects of government like SS and the like, but would like to expand that aspect if only slightly to include healthcare and education into the socialized portion of the mixed economy as much of the world has successfully done.
I miss the pre-moderate Republican Democratic party, Bernie reminds me a bit of that party, a party that once championed the working people and the poor people, nowadays only Suburbanite middle class people that have investments and more than one vehicle are represented by anybody, that is all you ever hear about caring for any more in political speeches, the "middle class", too bad they are disappearing because when they do no one other than the wealthy will even get a mention.
I need to stop posting here, my era of Democrat is frowned upon here and targeted for banning by cave dwellers with secret forums and a gang up on and coordinate alert stalk off the website mindset, if I don't stop posting here I will suffer the unfair indignity of people like NYC Skip who was the first to welcome me over ten years ago who was run out on a rail by those that only care about identity politics.
Back when Skip welcomed me, my era of Democrat was still welcome, but not any more.
I don't know you, but nice to meet you and take care.