Reply #44: Disenfranchising... [View All]

[Beregond2]

I wonder if you really believe all this. The hordes of young women at the caucuses would beg to differ with you. The women who are invariably in charge at them would beg to differ with you. Are you really so caught-up in your fantasy scenario that you can't see reality?

Clinton and Obama went into the caucuses on an even playing field. There was nothing preventing Clinton's "base" from swamping the caucuses. Apparently they are just too lukewarm in their support for her to be bothered. Clinton lost because the people who are most motivated to get involved in this election are not convinced that more "free" trade and Reagan-Lite is going to help them, any more than it did in the nineties. They are not willing to support someone who is willing to throw away the wealth of this nation on an idiotic war because she was too cowardly to do the right thing.

This isn't about the system, it isn't about race, it isn't about gender. It's about who people trust to stand up for them, and for what is right.