First, as I mentioned below, I like Tim Kaine. I come from rural "real" Virginia and live in the city with Jerry Falwell's empire so I understand conservatism and how Tim is a liberal for most of these parts. He is absolutely a liberal in these parts of the universe. But overall, Tim is a cis, Christian White dude, and dully a centrist, no where near being even the middle of the pack of senate progressives. I believe someone looked him up in this group and he's number 41 out of 56 in progressive for senators. Not 25 or even 30, but 41. Hillary is already a centrist. I think Tim can hold his own just fine, but is he going to be the attack person needed for progressive ideas? Will he push the party progressively forward in the way that Joe Biden has done for Democrats and Dick Cheney did for Republicans (of course Cheney pushed in the opposite way, but that's the way that party likes to go)? No. I don't believe he will and I've followed his career since he ran for governor here. He will push centrist ideas. As much as I like him, he really was just touting TPP, which has been generally loathed by progressives for awhile now. It's actually one of my least favorite things Obama has tried to push in his eight years in office. So, the VP spot confirms to many how Hillary intends to run the White House. And it's not progressive in nature.
Second, DWS' intro to the campaign is just a symbolic one as far as we know, but it's a horrendous one that happened immediately after her resignation. Again, I understand friendship, but if incorporating someone who causes such visceral reactions from Sanders' supporters and other progressives in the same day is the plan, why else would anyone progressive think that Clinton won't just throw a finger up anytime something like this happens? And what's worse is if this is just symbolic then she couldn't even throw a bone in this area.
Removing Nina and Tulsi is a huge deal. Conventions aren't just a nice spectacle, they're for showcasing rising stars and networking. What they did is cut off the rising stars of the progressive wing. You know how everyone is talking about Cory Booker and his speech? Yeah, Nina, who is extremely dynamic, may have gotten a chance at great press and connections with other donors. Now, if she manages to stay in office, she may get a spot at the convention four years if she kisses a lot of ass. And she definitely would have gotten some kind of press introducing Sanders. Just like many independents and liberals don't watch Fox News, many independents and conservatives don't watch MSNBC, but many do tune in for the conventions. Nina and Tulsi were potential progressive rising stars and they got that stripped from them. Nina is what sold a lot of people on Bernie Sanders. She could be vital for progressives moving forward. The DNC and whatever Clinton campaign fucked over that chance for both Nina and Tulsi. And effectively threw more cold water on everyone else.
I won't rehash everything on Bloomberg because we're literally commenting in an article about this, but right after Bill had basically shit on Muslims the night before, Bloomberg got a shining center stage even though his pollcing program was violating people's rights. That is not progressive ideals. And it threw many Muslims under the bus at the same time.
We have a bunch of neoliberalism and we have to swallow that, but we need some kind of bones. Maybe Hillary does it tonight in her speech.
But what she's forecasting for us so far is that she may be even right to Obama. Kaine certainly is. There are no hints at a liberal or progressive cabinet pick (far too early to tell, of course, but none of the actions leading up to this are convincing anyone right now), her foreign policy speeches and records until now have been anything but progressive and her marketing has been woefully out of tune at times.
Second, DWS' intro to the campaign is just a symbolic one as far as we know, but it's a horrendous one that happened immediately after her resignation. Again, I understand friendship, but if incorporating someone who causes such visceral reactions from Sanders' supporters and other progressives in the same day is the plan, why else would anyone progressive think that Clinton won't just throw a finger up anytime something like this happens? And what's worse is if this is just symbolic then she couldn't even throw a bone in this area.
Removing Nina and Tulsi is a huge deal. Conventions aren't just a nice spectacle, they're for showcasing rising stars and networking. What they did is cut off the rising stars of the progressive wing. You know how everyone is talking about Cory Booker and his speech? Yeah, Nina, who is extremely dynamic, may have gotten a chance at great press and connections with other donors. Now, if she manages to stay in office, she may get a spot at the convention four years if she kisses a lot of ass. And she definitely would have gotten some kind of press introducing Sanders. Just like many independents and liberals don't watch Fox News, many independents and conservatives don't watch MSNBC, but many do tune in for the conventions. Nina and Tulsi were potential progressive rising stars and they got that stripped from them. Nina is what sold a lot of people on Bernie Sanders. She could be vital for progressives moving forward. The DNC and whatever Clinton campaign fucked over that chance for both Nina and Tulsi. And effectively threw more cold water on everyone else.
I won't rehash everything on Bloomberg because we're literally commenting in an article about this, but right after Bill had basically shit on Muslims the night before, Bloomberg got a shining center stage even though his pollcing program was violating people's rights. That is not progressive ideals. And it threw many Muslims under the bus at the same time.
We have a bunch of neoliberalism and we have to swallow that, but we need some kind of bones. Maybe Hillary does it tonight in her speech.
But what she's forecasting for us so far is that she may be even right to Obama. Kaine certainly is. There are no hints at a liberal or progressive cabinet pick (far too early to tell, of course, but none of the actions leading up to this are convincing anyone right now), her foreign policy speeches and records until now have been anything but progressive and her marketing has been woefully out of tune at times.
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