This is crazy. Hilary Clinton has been consistently on the side of the right-wing of the Democratic party. Her and her husband's political careers has been a repudiation of left-wing values. If you think she is secretly some leftist then I really don't know what to say.
So what makes reworking welfare programs so they work better, improving them so states are more willing to manage them, and means testing to eliminate some of the building trade worker vacation usage of such programs. Seems the military lost size every year Clinton was in office, social programs stabilized, and the economy actually did bust a move.
Dinos aren't actually conservative, gun loving, states righist, racists as some on the left are fond of chanting Instead they are either Roosevelt democrats who live in rural states or moderates who expect social reform to include business and states.
So enough of the tarring of those who reliably vote with you on most things. We are all about a more inclusive government and society. There is room for experimentation with including local and state entities in social programs if they are willing to get on board. Central administration of some programs is not a good thing especially when local interests vary greatly as they do in land management. Western states bear the brunt of revenue loss because of federal refusal to participate as citizens in hefting their weight for lands held in public trust for instance.
Since we are a two party organized political system the strain by total federal organization of social programs need to be adjusted to include enough centrists to put our party in power. For that we pay a price, but, America, I think, benefits in slower incorporation of social agendas for disenfranchised and left out citizens of all stripes.
Look at what is happening in Europe right now. They did move left pretty quickly after formation of EU, but,now when stress is applied the Eu seems to be coming apart at the seems like a rag doll constructed with bad thread. The founding member of EU, Belgium, has rejected integration. Britain is likely to request distancing itself further from integration and southern Europe is generally bankrupt. From evidence there is no way it can stand up to diversity like that found in the US.
No sir, I'm happy to be part of a democratic party of moderates and leftists of all varieties, from cities, from rural and low density regions, and from the now dominant suburban and semi-suburban regions. Bernie pointing to the EU as example should be taken with much salt given the adjustments being made to social systems as neo-nazi and nationalist movements move to dominant political positions.
I'm not much of a fan of business in government since it is the business of government to regulate and control greed of business to the benefit of its citizens. Should motivation and best practices be a focal point for government. Indeed it should.
So how about we just end this little high Bernie has brought, sober up a bit, and get about incorporating Bernie's ideas and the ideas of Bernie's people into our mantle and march on.
We really do have to figure out this midterm democrat malaise else we'll rocket back and forth between liberal federal motivated leadership and states rights social minimalism every two years.
