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In reply to the discussion: It would be easier for me to get excited about Elizabeth Warren [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Most Americans, in all regions, want us to STOP militarily intervening.
And military intervention on our part can never have progressive results again. It hasn't since VE Day.
HRC will keep up the status quo position of continuing to threaten to bomb Iran, even though there's no reason to keep on with that anymore, if there ever was.
She'll keep pushing "free trade" in the Americas and Africa...which means she'll keep pushing greater poverty, greater misery, and greater hopelessness for the majority there AND the majority here. Only the corporate elite still want "globalization" in NAFTA terms, and HRC still carries water for them.
She still doesn't accept that the Cold War is over, for God's sakes(which is why she is STILL opposed to reducing the number of nuclear weapons in Europe in the slightest).
And she still has no right to ask black people to vote for her after the implicit "stop the n____r" campaign she ran in places like West Virginia in 2008, a campaign she has never apologized for(and, for the record, she would have lost West Virginia in the fall, since everyone who couldn't handle having a black nominee for president is automatically going to have a total straight-ticket GOP mindset and wouldn't vote for anyone with a "D" behind their name.
None of the tiny number of issues on which she is mildly progressive outweighs the great swaths of ugliness in her program.