Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumMy thoughts on so called Clintonian Triangulation and the fatigue in voters it causes.
People are just fed up with manipulation and manipulators to the point where they wont turn out to vote for Hillary. She's not a candidate who will get people out to vote in the general election.
Lots of people see the provision of a raft of such horrible GOP candidates as another kind of manipulation, even though it isnt, of course- nonetheless that distinction is lost on real people.
A strong campaign to write in Bernie and/or Elizabeth Warren might work to prevent a total bloodbath for other Democratic candidates nationally. In terms of getting out the vote.
But it would be ineffective in saving the Democratic Party from being seen as a branch of the Republican Party by many. And even if Clintin wins, her putting lipstick on the pig of neoliberalism and austerity and her thinly veiled globalization which is targeted to maintain inequality is no longer hide able.
Even if Hillary gets a lot of crossover GOP votes the unwillingness of Dems to vote for Hillary would likely result in low Dem turnout and GOP candidates getting a huge number of victories they would not otherwise get.
So, I think the Democratic Party needs to rally around Bernie instead of wasting their vote on a candidate that is so divisive that she will literally destroy the party for good.
Sanders is a better candidate than we have had in many decades and wasting him - frustrating the millions of people young and old who are turning out for him is basically a decision to become irrelevant.
Thats the truth
cantbeserious
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ladjf
(17,320 posts)Larkspur
(12,804 posts)so called Independents who are most likely to stay home.
I'm a Bernie supporter, a Democrat from a family of FDR Democrat types, and I despise the Clintons. My brother and I, the last remaining members of our family, will hold our noses and vote for Hillary if she is the Democratic nominee in the GE. We won't like it but the Republicans are fascists.
However, I will NEVER donate to HRC or put one of her hideous bumper stickers on my car. She's a multi-millionaire and she can pay for her campaign out of her own damn bank account.