Quote (thesnipa @ Sep 5 2017 05:59pm)
HRC had to walk a tight line. She had to convince the DNC voters that while Bernie's ideas weren't bad they were not likely to be accomplished and may cause regression. She had to convince people that Bernie was an outsider who couldn't work with congress while also walking another tight line with her relationships with Paul Ryan. Enough to convince people she could get things done without playing into the swamp narrative too much. I think a lot of simplistic people (not you) took this as her bashing socialism while hypocritically offering socialism-lite, I disagree she was the far more pragmatic of the two and by all means an Obama term repeat.
I actually think you're right on the money about her being Obama's third term, and that's precisely what the problem was. Obama promised hope and change when he was elected, and despite that, not very much changed during the 8 years of his presidency. Even his signature legislative accomplishment, the ACA, ended up being a mediocre success for some people and an abysmal failure for many others that continues to this day. Running a campaign where you are trying to extend the status quo in a society requiring significant changes to address very fundamental problems like wealth inequality, health care, military intervention, and immigration was probably the worst possible message one could send to people demanding ACTUAL change / answers.