07-17-2018, 01:26 PM
(07-17-2018, 01:16 PM)GMDino Wrote: Ah!
So she wasn't far enough left to garner that support (which she lost to Sanders/Stein).
That's different then.
I didn't have a problem with her running more center. She had to figure there were republicans closer to center right that would rather have a center left than an orange ego ball. May have cost her democrat votes though.
The movement of the party to the center is what has made voters less excited. The abandonment of the ideals from FDR, looking out for the lower and middle classes in a meaningful way, is what has moved the party to the center. Being more of a friend to corporations than the workers. It's what allowed Trump to capitalize on things the way he did.
Clinton was pretty solidly center, not center-left, and it did cost her a lot of votes. Not just to other candidates, but votes that stayed at home, as well.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
