2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Yeah, in connection with Yavin4's thread on Hillary Hate [View all]EdwardBernays
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Or like we're playing some sort of anti-Clinton game.
We're not.
This isn't a game...
Hillary is corrupt.
Like with many many famous, wealthy and powerful people there's not going to be some magic moment where police swoop in and produce some amazing evidence of their crimes. In case you haven't noticed our entire system is corrupt.
But.
She has repeatedly done what she can to reduce transparency..
She has taken money from people whose deals she's responsible for adjudicating. And those deals always get approved.
She has talked up human rights and women's rights while taking money from oppressive regimes and then often selling them millions and billions in weapons. Weapons now being used in war crimes in at least one case.
She has hired the owner of one of the biggest lobbying firms in DC as her campaign chairman. She asks him to represent her publicly.
And on and on.
If any Republican did this Hillary supporters (hypocritically it now appears) would call them corrupt. And they would be.
And when your husband does even worse. Well. It's gross and should not be supported.
And it's not the behaviour of a liberal or a progressive. No its not. No. No its not. If you're telling yourself that selling billions of weapons to a country that horribly oppresses women and holds public mass executions could ever be the "top priority" of a progressive, you're wrong or confused.
If you think that deliberately trying to hide and conceal donors to your "Foundation" is something a progressive does, you're wrong.
If you think vouching for an oppressive dictator publicly, to help your buddy get a billion dollar uranium deal is progressive, you're wrong.
And I will NOT vote for someone that behaves like this.
I will not tell the DNC that I support having that person as a candidate.
I won't vote for a neoliberal with a neoconservative foreign policy.
I won't vote for someone that takes advice from a war criminal.
I won't vote for someone that has made racist attacks as part of their political campaign...
If you want me to vote nominate someone worth a damn.