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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)40. It can't be that the institutionally-annointed candidate failed, eh?
There was an attempt this time to build an ugly coalition around the idea that a Wall Street friendly, status-quo candidate who simply wasn't a frothing moron would win because she was more socially acceptable. Corporate Dems thought they had an unbeatable "coalition" in that everyone socially offended by Trump would rush out to avoid the specter of his election.
But Hillary promised to change nothing for people. The minimum wage should go up, but not too much. Education should be more accessible, but not universally acceptable. Wall Street could just be told to "cut it out."
Not good enough. Bad pie-in-the-sky beat "No we can't."
We could learn something from this, but a lot of people are really invested in 90's-era triangulation that leaves wealth blissfully intact as long as we're nicer to people.
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A pessimistic prediction from Joy-Ann Reid. Read it anyway: she could well be right about everything [View all]
DFW
Nov 2016
OP
I think she's using the word as shorthand for "old school USSR, only with BMWs and high fashion"
MADem
Nov 2016
#15
LOL--most of the "Obama Scolds" here (most of whom have departed or been tossed over the side)
MADem
Nov 2016
#16
Hillary's not terribly "right." She's a product of her times, and has a JFK attitude on defense.
MADem
Nov 2016
#18
I don't think so. I think she is left of him on social programs, particularly women/kids issues.
MADem
Nov 2016
#20
Attacking Hillary and letting Trump win was not the way to move the Democratic Party left.
athena
Nov 2016
#26