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In reply to the discussion: I'm a liberal progressive, & a newbie, so I didn't know 'til I got to DU that I am supposed to hate [View all]politicman
(710 posts)If we got behind every nominee that they third-way democrats threw up, then we are no better off than what the 1% want us to be.
The only way to affect change is to do it the hard way.
By rejecting corporate backed candidates like Hillary, we will eventually get through the pain of successive GOP presidency, and have an actual true progressive sit in the white house.
We need to decouple ourselves from the 1% and their money, and actually win voters through ideas and policies that will attract them to us in droves, this is the ONLY way that we will end up with candidates that look after the 99% instead of the 1%.
Besides, we live in a democracy and if you look around the world, you would see that there is no way to keep the opposition from ever winning control of the country at some stage.
We see it every where we look, parties get elected and the public always tires of that party and eventually elects the opposition.
So we might as well make the most out of the time that we get to be in office by actually advancing and enacting progressive ideas and policies that help the 99% because when we eventually lose office like every country in the world does, we will at least have made some progress for the 99%.
And Hillary will not do this for us, she will carry water for the 1% who are donating heavily to her because they know something that many of you don't.
Always follow the most amount of money, that will tell you everything about a candidate.