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In reply to the discussion: I do not want Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic nominee. [View all]emsimon33
(3,128 posts)I have volunteered for the Democratic Party since I was 9 years old! I have phone banked, canvassed, paid my own way to other states to volunteer. I WILL NOT DO SO for Hillary Clinton and I am a woman of that certain age.
But just as the Republican Party was forsaken its roots, so the Democratic candidates, such as the Third Wayers and neo-liberals, have deserted us.
Both Clintons have sided with the wrong side time and again. What the Beltway Democrats don't understand is that Wall Street and other big money donors can only carry them so far. Without feet on the street, feet connected to passionate Democrats, they can't win.
Obama never gave credit to Howard Dean or to the 1000s of committed people who, on their own dime, traveled around the country to volunteer where most needed in order to get him elected. Instead, he sells us out with TPP and other "trade" agreements, placing Monsanto and financial institution former lobbyists and executives in positions of power over the very government agencies that regulate the industries that they just left.
I could go on for pages, but many, many of the base are fed up. I WILL NOT VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON! Not even if the Republicans run Satan! I shall work for progressive local, state, and congressional candidates instead.
By the way, all the Republicans need to do to win is to run a candidate with a history of supporting working class and elderly Americans and they will win. Perhaps, Jim Webb would be willing to run as a Republican. If he did so, Hillary would be eating his dust come election day.
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