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kleinbl00  ·  2716 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Most Important WikiLeaks Revelation Isn’t About Hillary Clinton

Holy ad-hominem, batman! Who are these "people" that "wear cynicism as some kind of badge of honor?"

I'm stating, using facts and figures, what the world is. You are stating what you wish the world to be. "Realism" isn't "pride" any more than "idealism" is "pride". When I say that Hillary Clinton is objectively a good candidate (which, I think, is what our beef is about), I'm placing her on a continuity of actual, viable candidates for president. And don't get me wrong: I support Bernie Sanders, I agree with Bernie Sanders, I gave money to Bernie Sanders but honestly?

Bernie Sanders is far more useful, objectively, as a mobilizer of the youth and disaffected. He's an excellent rallying point for leftist values. He is an excellent social conscience for a fractious party, a much-needed gadfly to shape the core conversation and a vitally important spokesman for an entire demographic that had been largely abandoned by the Democratic Party.

But he hasn't been a particularly vital legislator.

The error you're making is in assuming a person can't be both a cynic and an idealist. Cynically, I'm totally down with a center-right legislator with ties to big business and 30 years experience in backroom dealing running the country. Idealistically, I support anyone who can shine a light on the whole process and drag the country in a better direction. These are not mutually exclusive ideas.