2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How do Hillary supporters deal with her hawkish views and her obvious ties to Wall Street??? [View all]Proud Liberal Dem
(24,488 posts)Where she is politically seems to be pretty much where the vast majority of Americans are, which positions her well for both the primary and the general elections. And I don't expect that, were she to win in 2016 that she's going to start launching wars left and right and giving out huge tax cuts to Wall Street high rollers. My guess is that she will likely continue/preserve the policies of her predecessor and, hopefully, expand on them, as well as promote good solid liberal appointments to SCOTUS and to the Federal Judiciary should she have opportunities to replace any of them, which is all fine by me. I'll be content knowing that Hillary wouldn't let the country go backwards on health care, LGBT rights, the right to choose, funding Planned Parenthood, etc. What she (or Bernie for that matter) will be able to get done in Congress will largely be dictated by what kind of Congress she has to work with but at least she will ensure that executive agencies can do their job unimpeded by right-wing sabotage/cripple/capture efforts and be able to influence things from the top via targeted executive orders as she is able to use them. I don't get why people try to make her (and even Obama) out to be "Republican-lite" when the Republicans wouldn't let them within 1000 light years of their party (and both Hillary and Obama would stay just as far away from them).