The DNC Platform was finalized yesterday, producing a document that is probably the most progressive in America's history. Here are some highlights of additions to since late June:
- Tough police-reform plank, committing Democrats to "require the use of body cameras," stop "racial profiling" and "stop the use of weapons of war that have no place in our communities."
- Tough new antitrust language
- Pathway for marijuana legalization
- Language that prioritized the building of solar and wind plants before natural-gas facilities, along with greater regulation for fracking
- Calling for a public option to the ACA
- Condemning the anti-abortion Hyde and Helms amendments
- Dems should apply tough standards to everything including the TPP (but falls short of opposing it)
I sincerely hope Sanders gets an explicitly anti-TPP amendment through on the floor, but this looks pretty good.
Actually getting close to supporting the ticket after this. We'll see who gets nominated as VP, and how that person campaigns.
I was going to vote for the ticket anyways to stop Trump, but I am very satisfied by these concessions on HRC's and the DNC's parts. 
They're not perfect, but they are well in the right direction.
Perhaps. But it will be incumbent on progs and populists to hold Clinton to this standard should she become President.
At the very least these concessions give us ammo to go DINO hunting in the 2018 primary season, which is a not-awful outcome.
As I see it, my rationale is to give HRC a chance, and see how she does and vote accordingly in 2020. If she wants to run for re-election, and I strongly believe she does, she will stick to her campaign promises and do her best to get them through. She is well-qualified, and this rationale is good enough for me at the moment.
