An Open Letter to Hillary Clinton

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

39. There always is. Democrats are never ever satisfied with their candidates, so we get angry and stay

home because we didn't get everything we wanted. Or, the guy/gal we supported isn't sufficiently liberal enough.

I have my issues with Obama AND the Clintons. But they are electable candidates. As much as I love Elizabeth Warren and the more liberal contingent of the Democratic Party, those politicians are not electable. We have to work to change the minds of the electorate.

Larry O'Donnell put it plainly tonight in his commentary on liberalism and how Republicans/conservatives have successfully made "liberal" a bad word: he said that until we are able to change the political culture and redefine what liberal is--turning it into something good and not nefarious--we will continue down this path.

The double standards will always be placed on Democratic politicians, especially presidents, because Americans expect Democrats to govern; they expect Republicans to play politics. That is a major double standard that we have seen played out to the 10th power with this particular president. No matter what he does it's never good enough and everyone on all sides is angry at him. Meanwhile, he has to govern, forced to work with racist assholes in the legislature who want nothing but to destroy him regardless of who dies (by not expanding Medicaid in their respective states, for instance).

I just hate when smart Democrats commit the same mistake--play into double standards against our own. We should know better.