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In reply to the discussion: Damn. Watching HRC on MSNBC and I feel a sense of loss for America and the World with having her [View all]betsuni
(28,109 posts)as John Kerry and John Edwards and others and would instantly start wars so more dangerous than Trump, responsible for all loss of manufacturing jobs because of NAFTA when she was First Lady, corrupt and beholden to Wall Street Wall Street Wall Street and wealthy donors and corporations and billionaires (dollar bills thrown at her when she attended at fundraiser at George Clooney's house and called a corporate w****), paid speeches for Goldman Sachs meant she was in cahoots with Wall Street in some nefarious plot, put everyone in prison because of the 1994 Crime Bill while she was First Lady because racist, had no economic policies and ignored the working/middle classes, corporatist elite establishment neoliberal corrupt corrupt corrupt. Words like establishment and progressive weaponized against Democrats (Planned Parenthood part of the evil establishment). Us vs Them populist enemies list.
Right here and everywhere else, every day. Hillary's whole career erased and replaced with a gross caricature to make the election all about her. Long history of the Democratic Party's goal of universal health care as a human right erased. Myth that FDR/LBJ were democratic socialists and therefore the roots of the party were socialist, that the party had shifted Right over the last 30 or 40 years (because of Wall Street of course) and were horribly immoral and ideologically bankrupt, worse than Republicans. People went around calling themselves FDR Democrats as if FDR wasn't a liberal Democrat (and upper class 1% wealthy elite who hated socialism).
Taking a Midwestern Methodist do-gooder whose first job was with the Children's Defense Fund, got the Children's Health Insurance Program going after trying for universal health care, was the first to get organized about the Flint water crisis and so much much more and turning her into Satan.
The person who was most responsible was not right-wing or Russian.
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