Mayor de Blasio, on Midwest Trip, Seeks to Lead a National Shift to the Left

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8. This is a good thing. This, and Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders - we need this.

I am still convinced that Hillary will be the nominee - but THIS is great. This will force her to lean to the left, too - if she wants to grab the base-voters who are going to be VERY easily wooed away by someone with a fiercer leftward leaning. If she wants it badly enough, she's going to have to get there herself.

This is a good thing. We need LOTS of this. LOTS. There's been too big and strong and relentless a push backwards. That HAS to be met head-on, and fought til it's BEATEN back.

And the more people gravitate to it, the better! There's your trending, right THERE! And the more people gravitate toward it, the more it'll be noticed, be commented on, be reported on, make the news, make the headlines, make the lead stories, and more and more and more. Pretty soon it'll be too painfully obvious that those who claim America is "center-right" - are full of shit. From THIS a movement is made. What we need to do is combat the damn DENIAL that's out there, from people who have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st Century. This is NOT Medieval Times anymore!!! Women are NOT going to go back. Racial minorities are NOT going to go back. The LGBT community is NOT going to go back. And we have to underscore how much of America is actually WITH US - in NOT wanting to go back! Stuff like this makes it a lot more obvious. And inevitable.

And it won't just be Hillary who's motivated to acknowledge the changing and LEFTWARD-LEANING realities in this country. Smart politicians EVERYWHERE will have to wake up and smell this coffee - or risk being voted out. Makes me think back to then-California Senator Alan Cranston, who was a Dem and a good guy. He once said - "I know how to count votes." The smart politician locally, regionally, and nationally, will recognize a changing America. They'll HAVE TO, in order to survive politically. Or they'll wind up unemployed. Also reminds me of our own President. Awhile back he said "Make me do it." He might already be onboard with it, whatever it is, but he wanted and needed the strength of huge numbers of people having his back, in order to make those changes and evolutions of policy a reality. This is good stuff. You want Hillary to show more leftward leanings? THIS is how you get there.