2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: 33% of Bernie Sanders Supporters Won't Back Hillary in the General [View all]kaleckim
(651 posts)mock them and don't give them a coherent argument about why Clinton will improve their lives. That's a way to grow your party and to clean out the corrupt crooks running it. Does the left in the US give a damn anymore about providing a true alternative to the right? I'm not talking about the "we're less bad than Republicans" type of alternative. The trade model that Democrats like Clinton have supported has been horrible in practice, same with her hawkish foreign policy, her corruption, etc. Do Democrats care anymore to provide, for example, a radically different trade model? Democrats like the Clintons and Obama don't, and most in the Democratic Party don't seem to give a damn. Maybe it is turning into the party of a relatively well off group of people that could largely give a damn about the poor (or avoiding ecological collapse, since that would necessitate radical changes), that maybe have a gay friend and are pro-choice.