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In reply to the discussion: Couldn't vote for HRC? So where are we now? [View all]betsuni
(25,380 posts)She was paid for a speech.
Money contributed by people working for corporations or financial institutions is corrupting. Fundraising is corrupting. PACs wanting to elect Democrats, all lobbyists are corrupt (even those who lobby for environmental protections and green energy, etc., apparently). Democrats "take" money from the donor class, billionaires and corporations and Wall Street -- bribed to stop anything progressive (ignore their goal of repealing Citizens United, taxing the wealthy and corporations, regulating Wall Street). All that money goes straight into their pockets, not to, like, pay for things. All dysfunction in government comes from money in politics, obstructionist Republicans have nothing to do with it. Democrats are the true roadblock to progressive legislation (Michael Moore).
She used the word "super-predator" in 1996 to describe drug cartels, gangs and the mob and people believed the lie that she said it in 1994 to support the crime bill then and that it was racist, that Hillary was personally responsible for putting everyone in jail because she's racist (heard that one a lot, Russians really liked it).
Unlikeable, inauthentic, shrill, overconfident, arrogant, gravely ill, wearing a full body brace.
"80% of her supporters are paid shills," echo chamber, cheerleaders, stupid: personal attacks. Trump supporters were merely nice people suffering from economic insecurity.
Can't be trusted/liar (when Hillary was judged to be the most honest of all candidates in 2016).
Didn't talk about jobs (when the most frequent word in her speeches was the word "jobs" ), only ran as "not Trump" and had no message, only ran as a woman because of "identity politics."
Establishment, status quo, neoliberal, centrist, donor class, liberal elite, coastal elite, Third Way, incrementalism, milquetoast, conservadem, complacent, corporatist, 1%, Wall Street, Goldman Sachs, oligarchs, won't fight for anything.
Clinton Foundation as corrupt for collecting "many dollars from foreign governments which are dictatorships."
The DNC apparently is a powerful diabolical group that rigs everything so Democrats are evil, corrupt and bad.
Vote my conscience, send a message, hold feet to the fire, lesser of two evils (while insisting the idiom doesn't mean that Hillary is evil), hold my nose, speak truth to power, voting as an expression of personality or brand rather than a civic duty.
Insisting everything's about policy but attacking character: corrupt and immoral, warmonger, more dangerous than Trump.
90s trade deals caused changes in manufacturing jobs, not automation and the choices of corporations. All Democrats fault!
The myth that Democrats have shifted right for 40 years and hate the working class and unions (ignore the most progressive platforms in history of Obama, Hillary Clinton, Biden).
Something called the "Clinton Machine."
All incredibly stupid. And there's so much more!