2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: It's amazing. Even with almost all the dem heavy hitters running interference for [View all]Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)The same corporate criminals who own Hillary Clinton also own most of the big time politicians endorsing her.
No one should act shocked at this. After Citizens United, it seems to be the only game in town. Except it isn't.
Only a very special politician like Bernie Sanders can play the other game successfully. He refuses corporate money and runs his campaign on small donations. His opponents accuse him of telling voters what they want to hear. He's the only candidate free to do that and has a lifetime record to back up that he believes what he says.
Consider that Bernie is the first candidate to run for federal office since the McCarthy Era to call himself a socialist and wins election after election. That's no ordinary politician.
America today is corrupt from the top down. Banking deregulation allow Legs Dimon and Pretty Boy Lloyd to expropriate your savings account and go on gambling spree with it, with their own banks serving as casinos. If they lose, you don't get your money back. Your money is less safe in a newly-deregulated bank today than it was before Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act was signed into law by President Bill Clinton, ending the era common sense banking regulations that began in the New Deal. Only nine years after Gramm-Leach-Bliley became law, a major banking crises occurred and crashed the world economy. Major economists agree that would not have happened if New Deal regulations had remained in place.
Yet it would be difficult to restore the New Deal regulations. The big banks and their crooked executives own enough members of Congress to keep that from happening. It is an unsustainable system. Dodd-Frank is not strong enough to prevent another crisis, and since its passage has been quietly weakened through amendments to appropriations bills.
Hillary Clinton has received generous campaign contributions, generous gifts to the Clinton Foundation and ridiculously exorbitant speaking fees from the banking industry. She opposes reinstating the New Deal regulations that kept American banks strong and safe for decades. Senator Sanders refuses to take money from the banking industry. He actively proposes reinstating New Deal regulations.
There is only one candidate for President not bound to the same industries that have ruined America over the last three and a half decades. That is Bernie Sanders. He is the only candidate who truly deserves your vote and support.