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In reply to the discussion: OWS was disproportionately affluent young white males [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)None of them would turn into passionate HRC supporters if only she had no progressive challenger.
And HRC could keep those people in the game by incorporating significant parts of Bernie's ideas in her own platform-if she's nominated, she doesn't have to make a big show of totally annihilating them in the convention hall.
It just takes some open-mindedness and creativity on her part.
Remember, we didn't lose in '68 because Johnson was dumped (the disastrous near-defeat of the Tet Offensive would have made him unelectable); we lost because the Peace Democrats were undemocratically crushed on the convention floor and the protesters were unjustifiably beaten and teargassed outside(sometimes just while they were listening to free rock concerts in Grant and Lincoln Park).
It was the arrogance of Daley and Johnson, not the vigorous primary debate, that doomed us to Nixon.