Reply #39: The issue with Bill Clinton wasn't just resentment from the "traditional liberal establishment". [View All]

it was also the treatment he inflicted on mobilized grass roots Eighties activists, those of us who had worked in the Rainbow. The Clintons made a point of marginalizing and ignoring us, and we'd done nothing whatsoever to deserve being demonized and left out in the cold. Nothing that happened in the Seventies and Eighties was our fault.

There will never be an excuse for a Democratic nominee to be THAT far to the right again. The DLC takeover made Clinton's 1992 victory meaningless, and cost us Congress in 1994. Then, the DLC refused to do anything to help regain Democratic control of either the House or the Senate for the rest of the decade.

The poor were vilified, the war budget went up, unions were left undefended. NAFTA, which almost nobody, left OR right, actually supported, was imposed by El Perro Grande solely to appease his corporate bosses.

We have a moral obligation never to repeat what that decade was like.