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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump killed Roe v. Wade. Here's Nina Turner the day after Trump won in 2016
Ohio voters, check this one out:
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
sheshe2
(96,618 posts)Disgusting OP bashing Democrats. Not suppressing the tweet is from Nina.
Hillary Clintons shortcomings were obvious from the beginning to anyone who bothered to open their eyes. I wasnt the only one who saw before she ever entered the race that a card-carrying member of the global elite who helped usher in this era of record-breaking inequality was hardly the best fit for the moment. Its hard not to feel let down by people like Vice President Biden and Senator Warren who clearly saw the problems with Hillary but didnt step up for their nation when they were called. Bernie did his level best but couldnt compete against a party terrified of the modest radicalism that made him so appealing. I do believe that a different candidate would have led to a different outcome. But Hillarys coronation is also proof that the problems in the Democratic Party run much deeper than just one candidate. Theres a reason why nearly the entire party rose up to stomp out the promise of Bernie Sanders candidacy.
The slow drift in the Democratic Party was long in the making. Its been many years since the Democratic Party decided to throw their lot in with the shiny world of corporate professionals, Wall Street financiers, and Silicon Valley gurus. We accepted the decline of unions as inevitable (it wasnt), didnt bother even trying to come up with an alternative source of worker power and embraced the new politics of money even as we talked out the other side of our mouths about oh how terrible all this flood of cash in politics is. If you just send in one more donation well be able to get the money out! There was an incredibly revealing moment at the DNC. In an effort to rev up the crowd one of the speakers called out: Who in this room works with their hands? Silence. It was a lot more than one candidate who led us to this place.
Budi
(15,325 posts)Hey Nina:
Now you finally show tf up, fundraising & needing votes & dissing The very woman who's life's advocacy was far greater than you'll ever be in a last ditch campaign speech for the press.
We all know who you are.
And you will never reach the global human rights stature of the woman you can't seem to hate-on enough to satisfy yourself.
United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing 20 years ago
Hillary Clinton Declares "Women's Rights are Human Rights"
September 8, 1995
As Hillary Clinton continues her campaign to be the first female president of the United States, we look back at her speech as First Lady to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing 20 years ago.
"If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights, once and for all," Clinton declared in September 1995.
Despite pressure to soften her remarks, Clinton called out human rights violations around the globe without directly naming China.
Reporting from Beijing on Washington Week, NPR's Julie McCarthy said, "Only Hillary Clinton, an American of such stature, could have pulled that off and gotten away with it."
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