I actually LIKE and admire Hillary - Democratic Underground

Armstead

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Thu Oct-11-07 10:52 AM
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I actually LIKE and admire Hillary

Edited on Thu Oct-11-07 11:12 AM by Armstead

I think she's been a fairly good senator, I admire her other accomplishments, and I know she can be charismatic in person. If she were New York's Senator for Life, it wouldn;t bother me in the least.

So why am I always so eager to "bash" her, on DU and in the real world?

Because Hillary and her husband are aligned with the forces that are helping to destroy the idea of a two-party system, in which both the liberal/progressive and conservative instincts of the country are represented.

Hillary is the water carrier for both the DLC and the Jim Kramer Wall St. Democrats. This is the group who hates and dismisses real liberal populism, and has used their power and influence to surpress that in the Democratic Party.

The rest of us don;t really matter, except in rhetoric. "I'll fight for you until the last dog dies" said Bill in an inspired moment in his first presidential campaign....Unfortunately the last dog died real early in his presidency, and we got more Bushonomics and V-Chips instead.

Despite the DLC's clever labeling, I'm not talking about suppressing some fringe leftist minority in the Democratic Party. The DLC is equally determined to stamp out any vestige of liberalism and authentic populism of the mainstream variety.

The only forms of liberalism they will tolerate are those which are deemed safe and acceptable to the corporate elite. Which usually means the social issues -- and even then they are timid. Gay rights, for example are acceptable. Gay civil unions are acceptable. But allowing gays to marry? Sorry, that won't go over with the swing voters.

On the real issues of Money and Power, the DLC is determined to keep the Democratic Party locked into the same straightjacket as the Republicans. They just are able to gloss it over so it seems acceptable.

Health Insurers are a problem? We'll fix the problem by turning to them for the solutions.

The Monopolistic Media is distorting the public dialogue? Okay, we'll fic the problem by allowing Big Media to become even bigger.

We screwed up by going into Iraq? We'll fix the problem when we go into Iran.

It goes on and on.....Real problems are answered with phony Public-Relations oriented solutions that totally ignore underlying causes and further enable those who have too much money and power already.

If Hillary becomes the candidate it will be a slap in the face to every liberal and progressive who has tried to bring about meaningful reform in the nation and in the Democratic Party.

So my anger at the thought of anotehr eight years of domination by the more-of-the-same DLC crowd is upsetting.

But it's not personal about Hillary. She's free to hold whatever positions she chooses, and to align herself with whomever she chooses.

But it is about the direction the Democratic Party -- and its' impact on the greater good -- is going.