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In reply to the discussion: When I vote for HRC, here is what I'll be voting for [View all]leveymg
(36,418 posts)32. In other words, you'll be voting at cross-purposes against yourself.
By the way you framed the issue - you'll be voting for a frayed safety net but for the huge institutions and trade practices that have hollowed out the center and excavated the bottom of the US economy.
By voting for Hillary, you will be voting to extend the economic draft that impacts only the middle and lower classes, and voting to send these economic recruits to fill combat roles in bomb craters that we will be excavating in ever greater numbers in oil-rich places around the world.
By voting for Hillary, you will be voting for the Multinational companies that make excavators and fill bodybags made in China.
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The negatives far outweigh the positives... Let's work hard to make sure you don't have to vote HRC
peacebird
May 2015
#1
False Positives. She won't fight for women or civil rights or growing the safety net.
NYC_SKP
May 2015
#11
So true. H>'s friendly suck-up to Wall Streeters, her support for BS trade agreements that harm Main Streeters, her ignorant vote for IWR...
InAbLuEsTaTe
May 2015
#83
Reminds me of the story of the frog in the pot. Which would one rather have,
rhett o rick
May 2015
#65
Honestly, if we can't do better than I don't give a shit anymore, fuck this shit.
NYC_SKP
May 2015
#10
I'm not going to stay in the Dem party if Hillary wins the primary. I'm going to turn my back...
L0oniX
May 2015
#30
Right - who cares if we let someone 10 times as horrible into the White House?
groundloop
May 2015
#37
Without Bernie basically I don't give a shit what happens to this fucked up country.
L0oniX
May 2015
#47
Why do we always have to get worse when the nation and its people have so much potential?
Enthusiast
May 2015
#76
I'm with you. It's time to go for it like there is no tomorrow. For many there isn't.
rhett o rick
May 2015
#66
This is actually a good point. Hillary would be laboring under the same confines as Barack Obama
calimary
May 2015
#25
Really ? At this stage in her life, what is preventng her from running as a died-in-wool democrat ?
CentralMass
May 2015
#64
I just may be sick and not able to make it to the polls that day but time will time. eom
Purveyor
May 2015
#55
You know Mrs. Clinton isn't a bad candidate, and O'Malley would be a good CEO
RoccoR5955
May 2015
#80