2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIf 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.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)She might embrace it but she would then ditch it if she wins the general.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)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.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)would only drive voter turnout down.
Armstead
(47,803 posts)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)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.
swilton
(5,069 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)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)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.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)BlueWaveDem
(403 posts)And more to come.
MindfulOne
(227 posts)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.