Reply #117: Projection projection [View All]

[dmallind]

I am not on Hillary's marketing squad. She's about my 3rd choice now and any of the big name possible entrants would probably drop her down further.

The DLC position is not "far right" or "corporatist". It may seem this is the normal opinion from the DU echo chamber, but there's a whole big world to the right of Hillary. Trying to paint her as far right automatically invalidates any opinion following it. Far right to you? Posiibly. Far right to most of DU? Quite probably. Far right in the overall political spectrum of the nation (you know, those folks who actually get to decide elections)? So laughable it deserves no response.

We did better under Bill than the alternative or his successor by ANY measure of "we". The hundreds of thousands of Iraqi kids were victims of sanctions imposed by the whole UN, and could have been spared any time their own leader wished for it. Of course it's a bad thing, but is at as bad as killing 650,000 of them outright and displacing millions more? Because that's what we got after Bill and that's what we'll keep having if we don;t stop this ridiculous charade of pretending there is no difference between HRC and Republicans.

The whole crux of all your and the OP's rationale is that (to you) "bad" policies from HRC are indistinguishable from "truly horrendous" policies from the only electable alternatives. You can rant and rave all you want that we should have inspiring left wing populists who can run and win but we don't. That does not mean you can bend reality so far out of shape to say that there is no difference between Hillary and Republicans.