Not true. Hillary was on the board of Walmart since like '84. The Clintons pushed hard for NAFTA. Hell - Hillary volunteered for the Goldwater campaign before she impeached Nixon before she volunteered for the Carter campaign. Business interests have always been her bag. People who think that somehow Clinton shifted right aren't paying attention - Clintons did what Clintons do, but they had an easier time getting the Republican stuff passed.

Once more with feeling: I agree far more with Sanders' politics. Most idealists do. But realists also recognize that an idealist in the real world for 30 years either compromises a fuckload or accomplishes nothing. I think it's fair to say that Bill and Hillary Clinton are centrists that support free trade and minimal government involvement in commerce, and have been for lo these many decades. I also think it's fair to say that most of us are not centrists that support free trade and minimal government involvement in commerce. But if I'm going to have someone in charge of worker rights, tariffs and trade I'd much rather they be a centrist that tried to pass universal healthcare than a walking tan line that thinks Mexico is going to build his wall.

I also think you don't have a real conception of what "flipping the boat" looks like. We're spoiled in this country - we can whine about pallets of hundred dollar bills vanishing into Iraq or universal nuclear disarmament scuttled in favor of Star Wars but at least those were establishment Republicans with the backing of the Machine. Trump? I mean, did you see Christie's eyes?

The world never CTRL-ALT-DELs cleanly. If you have the choice between a soft landing and a hard one, choose soft.