2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I've gotta say this. [View all]nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)You're dealing with people who are going to find a way to exploit any candidate in office and will generally donate heavily to both parties. People at that level of success are generally not only brilliant, but willing and able to compromise to get as much of the loaf of bread as they can get. They'd find a way to work with Bernie too if they had to, and it's why someone like Trump donated so much to Democrats. Yeah, he's a freak-show and I wouldn't want to see him as president but he does understand how that end of the game works. I like Hillary because she is able to reach across aisles, but it's very clear that most Republican pundits and voters, the ones who are more likely to be immovable on certain issues, see her very much as a leftist, more-so even than her shills. Heck, I've looked at the train wreck that is Free Republic over the years and I don't think I've ever seen anyone there call Hillary a corporate shill. Quite to the contrary. They practically think she's a Stalinist.
But then something you should understand is ... there's the Hillary that the far left says she is. There's the Hillary that the far right says she is. And then there's who she is. I am intimately familiar with this sort of dynamic.