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In reply to the discussion: FFS Hillary, just bring back the $3 a day wage, pay docking, no overtime pay, 90 hour workweek [View all]RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)By LW left wing, and TP toilet paper? I can't think of anything else that TP stands for. I find it quite offensive that you call the left wing toilet paper!!!!!
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are to the left of Clinton. I could name at least a dozen others who are to the left of them, and are REAL Democrats.
Cllinton was one of the original third way fakers. They faked that they are on one side or another, but always cave in to big business.
They claim to compromise, but set their goals low, knowing that they will have to come up with a far more right wing no-capitalist version of what they were supposedly asking for the people.
I could name at least a dozen others who are more to the left of Clinton who are REAL Democrats. These third way folks are simply Democrats in name only, since they are so willing to give up the core values of the Democratic Party, in favor of compromise.
A good example comes from Obama, who would not require universal health care, but rather have everyone buy healthcare from insurance corporations. On the surface it may look like people are getting healthcare, but in reality, and in compromise, it became a handout to the health insurance companies.
I hope that people wake up, and see Hillary as what she is, a Democrat in name only, who was a Goldwater Girl, and a Republican. If people do not see this, they are doomed to suffer the same declining wages, and companies moving overseas that happened in the Clinton Era.
We need a large shift here. No more breaks for big businesses, reinstating tariffs, no more tax breaks for wealthy, taxes on wall street transactions. This is what is needed if we are to be a more fiscally responsible country, and not fall behind in so many ways. We used to be a leader in many social and technological developments. We are no longer that leader, because our government is run by folks who are only concerned with the bottom line, and not WE THE PEOPLE.