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In reply to the discussion: To ANY liberal/progressive, anywhere, who refused to vote for Hillary in November, 2016 [View all]betsuni
(28,396 posts)She even had a basic income plan, Alaska for Americans, but couldn't make the numbers work. Elizabeth Warren had plans where the numbers worked, too, but people like populist promises that can't happen. You know, "progressives who like to get things done" like Hillary and Warren and many others. Populists tried to make 90s trade deals Hillary's fault and the reason for outsourcing (which began in the 70s and was especially bad in the 80s, before NAFTA -- and automation, not trade deals, is the most important factor) and lie about the TPP being a diabolical plot against American workers ("neoliberal" like idiots say the ACA is supposedly proof of).
So, as I said in post #64, the "Her Is Warmonger" thing.
People kept repeating "flawed candidate" because they were told that, not that it was true.
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