We Won't Vote for Hillary in 2020 Either

by Mona Shaw

Democrats, if you think you can bully third-party voters into voting for another Hillary or Hillary Clone in 2020, get over that shit now.

We hate Trump more than you do.  We hated Trump when Hillary, Bill, et all were still enjoying photo ops with him. Why not try giving dying Americans a reason to vote for you other than we all hate Trump?

You’ve had two years to come up with a comprehensive message for making things better, but instead, you’ve chosen to inch further right. With only a couple of rare exceptions, your candidates are all further right.  Rather than getting on board with Single Payer (80% of your base wants it), you’ve chosen to water-down HR676, so that it saves fewer lives than it does now. You’ve done nothing about war for profit but support widening it.

You suck at holding your official’s feet to the fire, and you’ve not been in the streets about war or healthcare since 2008. You either lack vision or don’t care that this death march will serve to give us worse candidates next time and kill more innocent people.  Someone has to interrupt that trajectory.  That can only be done by creating a political liability for it. You’ll go further right if we keep voting for you. Maybe, if you lose a few elections, you’ll begin to get it.

But, whether or not you change, insulting us-- “we’re voting for Trump, or we’re extremists or purists”--isn’t going to win us over. You have two more years to get with it. Clean up your death machine. Dump your lackluster message and give dying people some hope they might live.  Or, look forward to four more years of Trump.