I just disagree with the conventional "wisdom"... often
I don't give a ratts butt if every patchouli socialist hipster votes for Hillary or not! I don't want to coddle them or "work hard" to get their vote.. the Michael Moores or Susan Sarandons of the world? I couldn't give a rip.. they will forever be consigned to voting for the Naders, Kucinich's of the world... they don't matter.. are irrelevant..
there are way more votes .. WAY MORE in the middle.. and by people that MIGHT vote for Trump or Hillary.. in other words those votes actually count way more in my book.. the leftist wing of the progressives.. the ones that really loathe her... call her a "monster" etc (they do).. those people , i just have no time for them.. they act as if Hillary needs to try so hard to get them to vote for her.. fuck you.. vote for Trump if you don't like her.. we all know they will not.. either they will hold their nose and vote for Hillary or they will stay home (or vote for the green party or whatever which is the same thing as staying home)... so who should Hillary be targetting? The leftist progressives who will either vote for her or not.. or the far more numerous people in the middle including moderate republicans who won't be able to stomach Trump who WILL either vote for H or Trump?
The answer is obvious.
Sanders really damaged Hillary... I think you are naive not to realize that all his attacks on her regarding Wall Street, or the "release the transcripts" (I mean really! DO you think she went to talk to them and told them they suck? Of course not .. they paid her money and she gave them a nice speech to make them feel good.. so what?)... she is not qualified. .the system was rigged in her favor (this is total bullshit.. but it is true that when you are someone of her stature within a party you do have a bit of an edge.. kind of like a titleholder boxer vs a challenger.. the challenger has to do a bit more... this is why Obama beating Hillary was such an accomplishment.. well Sanders had to do the same but he couldn't get anywhere near.....).. the whole superdelegates thing.. its just so misunderstood... I'm all for getting rid of them but they are not stealing this election for Hillary! SHe won way more pledged delegates and millions more votes.. do Sanders people not get this?
there is this great delusion that there are tens of milions of sanders supporters who won't vote for Hillary.. there just aren't.. what there are, are tens of millions of independents or people who don't bother to participate in either Republican or Democratic primaries.. and these are the people to go after
the problem is that Sanders did tremendous damage to Hillary not with the leftist progressives but with the far more numerous people in the middle that will decide the election...
and your last sentence shows a real misread.. Trump is way more to the left than the conventional Republican so I don't know how you can say they keep going right? The danger in Trump is precisely that on issues like Trade, Foreign Policy he is LEFT of Hillary not like you make it sound that they are farther and farther to the right! and on things like abortion, gays etc Trump couldn't care less about them... so there is more competition for Hillary, potentially , in the center.. yet you want her to move way left .. this is nuts!
