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In reply to the discussion: OK, so a prominent DUer was banned for disloyalty to the Democratic Party. [View all]TekGryphon
(430 posts)You guys keep acting like Hillary is bought up by the Wall Street fat-cats, but the data isn't there to support you. And no, I don't expect you to actually read this, or you wouldn't have the mindset you do. This is for other DU viewers, people who might actually be able to learn something.
There's two realities:
1. https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cid=N00000019&cycle=Career
Hillary receives a lot of small individual donations from rank-and-file employees from within the financial sector. These are market analysts and accountants, people I went to school with while I was studying for my MBA. They're not evil people. They're hard working folks that, if the market crashes, lose their job. They want a stable and productive economy for everyone, and that's why they donate to Hillary.
2. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/top-presidential-donors-campaign-money.html
When it comes to the big donations, from Wall Street and Fossil Fuel robber-barons, it's not Hillary who gets the money. Those fat-cats are spending outrageous sums of money to ensure Hillary DOESN'T win the election. What big donations is Hillary getting? Philanthropists, the Plumbers Union, and Dreamworks Animation.
Neither of those two realities square with your fantasy view of Hillary getting big donations from fat-cat Wall Street types who want to see income inequality rise. In fact, one of her biggest donations was from an organization dedicated to reducing income inequality.