2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Please STOP TELLING ME I'll Vote for Hillary Clinton Because I'M A CHICK. [View all]DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)and yet the people who refuse to allow liberal to be defined still quote Hillary was rated 90 percent liberal as if they were stating that the boiling point of water is 212 degrees.
We can talk about fitting narratives when some refuse to discuss what makes Hillary such a liberal, especially when many of her positions are anything but the classically defined liberal. FDR is considered a liberal, and yet we all saw how her policy wonk stated "we are not going to see Glass-steagall" as if to make sure wall street was not going to be unhappy
There is narrative, and then there is moving the goalpost, which is what many supporters of the Clintons have been doing for years. Sure, Nixon admittedly was to the left of many of the current GOP. He made the EPA, something that many of the current Democrats might not do. Yet, for all of that, is anyone going to call Nixon a 90 percent liberal, no.
Do not accuse people of fitting narratives if you are going to keep moving the goalposts farther to the right. Jackpine of course, were he among us, would have retorted with far better skill than I have, yet the facts are the same. Until people define WHAT A LIBERAL IS, then quoting statistics that prove liberal cred are meaningless, because the definition can then be manipulated to suit the bias of the study, but then again, I doubt that fits into the narrative Hillary plans to tell.