2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Progressive Pragmatism versus Liberal Elitism [View all]earthside
(6,960 posts)Hillary Clinton is the elitist of the elites.
Political wife, political and government insider for nearly half a century, a multimillionaire supported by billionaires and corporatists. Hillary Clinton is textbook wine and cheese liberal who thinks she has all the answers and knows what is best for all the rest of us. The Clinton Foundation ... and she isn't the epitome of liberal elitism?
Bernie Sanders is a progressive.
The pragmatism part depends on what you think is good and necessary for working class Americans. Aiming high to get something so necessary like single-payer health care is very pragmatic if you are being squeezed again by rising ACA insurance premiums. One is not an elitist when advocating for breaking up banks or making the income inequality issue the number one topic of your campaign.
The genesis of this post surely comes from the sting of Clinton's rightward drift and is an effort to try and spin Hillary as something she just isn't -- a progressive -- she is barely a liberal at best.
Ironically 'liberal elitist' is already the sobriquet applied by Repuglicans to Clinton ... and it fits. Progressive pragmatist is Bernie Sanders and is what Democrats need in a nominee for President if we are to motivate young people and working Americans to throw the Repuglicans out of Congress and keep the White House.