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In reply to the discussion: Maybe we should have a "I don't like Hillary" group [View all]Art_from_Ark
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So we have a conundrum, with people who are more like '60s or '70s liberals and who can remember, say, the Great Society, and people who can't remember any farther back than Reagan and who think that what they see in today's Democratic Party is "liberal". A lot of us older liberals do not like what we see as passing for "liberal" today, because we have seen better. But we are told that if we don't like the Annointed One, we either need to find and fund our own candidate (and some of us have been trying to do that through MoveOn and other organizations), run for President ourselves (that is truly comical, as if the Democratic Party would even let a political neophyte in through the service entrance), or shut up because we have no right to complain if we don't do either a or b above. And frankly, if that kind of attitude is truly indicative of today's Democratic Party, then we are screwed.