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comment by lachumproyale
lachumproyale  ·  3185 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Clinton Campaign Is Afraid of Bernie Sanders - The Atlantic

I feel the same way about Hillary's platform. And it seems that the more I do learn about it (via slow trickle), the more she looks like more of the same. With Obama it wasn't super obvious but with Hillary it is.

Sanders gets my vote for the simple fact that he's running on ideas that are, essentially, my own. And I think he's got an OK shot because I'm not the only person who feels this way.





psudo  ·  3185 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hillary has pretty much always been a straight Democrat. Whatever general platform the DNC advances, hers always seem in near lockstep. So essentially lip service to the left while instituting slightly right of center policies.

That said, I think that is honestly more appealing to more people. There has been a long history, abroad but especially in America, of the radicals forcing an issue into national consciousness and then the more moderate wing advancing a watered down version and breaking the back of the more extreme movement to secure temporary power.