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2016 Postmortem

In reply to the discussion: On Democratic Party Unity [View all]

auntpurl

(4,311 posts)
9. Some of that is true.
Mon May 23, 2016, 05:26 PM
May 2016

I am in favour of a strong foreign policy that will engage in military intervention when necessary to prevent the unchecked growth of terrorism or genocide. I am strongly in favour of engaging in intervention only in concert with our allies. Reducing it to "we don't approve of their leaders" does not reflect my beliefs.

I favour fracking over coal, and I think Hillary's energy policy is well-reasoned: we move toward clean energy, creating jobs in that sector that can make up for the shortfall of jobs in coal. In the meantime, we need short-term energy solutions, and fracking while not ideal is cleaner than coal and reduces our dependence on foreign oil, which props up terrorism.

I have never made any secret that I am slightly fiscally conservative and consider myself a moderate in general. I won't apologise for that. I've voted Dem in every race (national and local) since I was 18. I am every bit as much of a member of the Democratic party as anyone else, and there are apparently more of me (I'm over-generalising in the sense that everyone's beliefs are somewhat different, but you know what I mean) than there are far-left members, or at least ones who vote.

My opinion re: Bernie supporters is that most will vote for Hillary and the rest will be as insignificant as the PUMAs were in 2008. But I guess we'll see.

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