re: #289 petesh

I am on the left, I have completely given up on the Greens (and Peace and Freedom), but I do want some of the Sanders supporters in the fold. Locally, that’s happened at least a little. For me, HRC took the Dem platform in the correct (that is, left) direction and I don’t want backsliding, I want determined promotion of political goals that by and large are pretty damn popular, and terribly underrepresented in Congress.

I’m afraid that “backsliding” is going to happen. For all the proclamations otherwise, the Democrats simply moved too far for the public to go along with the ARRA/ stimulus and Obamacare and the bugs in the latter’s implementation. (And keep in mind when considering those political goals that the ACA’s provisions were very popular right up until the bill was written, at which point support from the right and the left evaporated.)