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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
Tue Sep 29, 2015, 08:59 PM Sep 2015

If HRC does get nominated, she will have to embrace Bernie's agenda to win.

And that not only means fighting corporate power and dominance, but rejecting Henry Kissinger imperial militarism and admitting there is no such as a "liberal" military intervention in other countries anymore. It also means fighting for the idea that the dignity, value and needs of the many matter more than short-term gain for the few.

The country wants a clear choice in the fall of 2016...a party of the people, of equality, of justice and of life(not in the anti-choice sense, but the anti-war sense) rather than two parties of greed and force.

Only a fire-up-the-base and make-the-powerless-believe campaign can beat the Republican money machine.

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If HRC does get nominated, she will have to embrace Bernie's agenda to win. (Original Post) Ken Burch Sep 2015 OP
Do you really think people will trust her to carry though? Autumn Sep 2015 #1
I don't trust her...which is why we would keep fighting on. Ken Burch Sep 2015 #2
Competing money machines.... daleanime Sep 2015 #3
Don't hold your breath Armstead Sep 2015 #4
She won't swing left in the GE. HooptieWagon Sep 2015 #5
Couldn't agree with you more swilton Sep 2015 #6
"She won't swing left in the GE" left-of-center2012 Sep 2015 #7
I just don't see how she can ibegurpard Sep 2015 #8
it's hard to sell what you don't believe restorefreedom Sep 2015 #9
Hillary has released numerous policy proposals she will be running on. BlueWaveDem Sep 2015 #10
Hillary's Pride and her Obligations make that very unlikely. MindfulOne Sep 2015 #11

Autumn

(45,120 posts)
1. Do you really think people will trust her to carry though?
Tue Sep 29, 2015, 09:05 PM
Sep 2015

She might embrace it but she would then ditch it if she wins the general.

 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
2. I don't trust her...which is why we would keep fighting on.
Tue Sep 29, 2015, 09:16 PM
Sep 2015

She won't get elected if she gets nominated runs a "mainstream" campaign. No one will respond to "stay the course" if that's her message.

 

Armstead

(47,803 posts)
4. Don't hold your breath
Tue Sep 29, 2015, 09:32 PM
Sep 2015

I think we'll see Democrats The Sequal.

They know enough of the "progressive base" will vote for her just to keep the GOP out of the WH that they can take it for granted....

 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
5. She won't swing left in the GE.
Tue Sep 29, 2015, 09:49 PM
Sep 2015

She'll go hard right. DLClinton triangulation means positioning oneself just slightly left of the GOP, and using fear-mongering to convince progressives to go along. It's getting old...there's no reason to have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
7. "She won't swing left in the GE"
Tue Sep 29, 2015, 10:37 PM
Sep 2015

Agreed. She'll go for the center and right of center.
She may throw a few crumbs to the left in a light hearted gesture.

ibegurpard

(16,685 posts)
8. I just don't see how she can
Tue Sep 29, 2015, 10:41 PM
Sep 2015

The money is a gigantic shackle. And I don't think she believes it. And if you don't believe it you can't convince others.

 

MindfulOne

(227 posts)
11. Hillary's Pride and her Obligations make that very unlikely.
Tue Sep 29, 2015, 10:47 PM
Sep 2015

It's not in her character to truly embrace his agenda.

She WILL, however, adopt it in a weak sort of way, like she already has with the college talk and middle class talk.

But she will never truly believe in and embrace it.

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