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She just won the popular vote by a large margin with a D next to her name. She has a ridiculous amount of evidence to show that she is the core of the Democrati
by aero142 10y ago
She just won the popular vote by a large margin with a D next to her name. She has a ridiculous amount of evidence to show that she is the core of the Democratic party and the only person I had as an alternative to Trump to vote for. She isn't a stand in for every wing of liberalism in the US, but she is definitely the center of the liberal wing with any real influence.
- kbenson 10y ago> She just won the popular vote by a large margin with a D next to her name. So? It's not like we have an unlimited pool of candidates of every possible variation such that we can choose the one that best averages all the views of a party. Consider that we were fairly closet to having Bernie Sanders and not Hillary Clinton be the person in that position. That should illustrate how ridiculous it is to use a single person to stand in for the entire group. > She ... the only person I had as an alternative to Trump to vote for. That's irrelevant. There was a discussion about liberalism and conservatism, and someone replied with criticisms about Hillary Clinton instead of liberals in general or liberalism (note this wasn't about Democrats and Republicans, so that D is a red herring). Even if Hillary were more representative of the norm in all mainstream liberal ideas, using her specifically would not be appropriate. As it is, she diverges fairly heavily from traditional liberal ideas in some aspects, which makes it even more of a bad idea.