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In reply to the discussion: A pessimistic prediction from Joy-Ann Reid. Read it anyway: she could well be right about everything [View all]DirkGently
(12,151 posts)I showed you examples of her policy positions that show it; it's not really even a question. I have noted with others that Obama did not publicly back marriage equality, although he has said he privately always did; whereas Hillary could only choke out a non-answer about "the country having evolved."
Iraq was a bad, hawkish decision by everyone who made it. Maybe the most critical foreign policy mistake in modern history. More than a trillion dollars. Thousands of dead and many more disabled. It was based on an obvious set of lies and made things worse. We're still paying for it terms of fallout and continuing wars. It counts.
We didn't pick a Dem as conservative as Hillary the last time we were stuck with a terrible Republican, and it was frankly a bad idea to think we should move backward this time.
It's neither likely nor a good idea that we do that again.