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In reply to the discussion: Ocasio-Cortez backs campaign to primary fellow Democrats [View all]JonLP24
(29,322 posts)More proof sports subsidies are a bad idea but then comes the idea of opportunity cost. You can spend that money on something else. Maybe something cheaper or a better deal that is fair to all parties.
I can only speak for myself. I agree there are supporters that make Bernie Sanders look bad especially the ones that complain about "identity politics" but there are plenty of centrists that make their candidates look bad. I consider anti racism a progressive as well as the right thing to do which is in Democratic Socialists of America platform who unlike the Greens work within the Democratic Party because they are realists. Plus the Greens run awful candidates though I liked McKinney (didn't vote for her).
I think Hillary Clinton would have been more liberal than Bill Clinton. If anything that WSJ op-ed is true I would like it if Hillary Clinton repositioned herself as a liberal firebrand for 2020. She would easily crush candidates.
I voted for her in the general election so I have no problem "uniting" but far too often people seem to want to cut off the progressive wing. Why can't we embrace both wings?