since you are working so hard to change the subject now. 
1. BootinUp thought it would be just *hilarious* to come onto this thread and, instead of responding to the OP topic of Hillary Clinton's extensive connections with Wall Street, to call me Ron Paul!
2. Get it? That's Third Way codespeak for calling me a dirty Libertarian. In fact, he or she was *so* proud of this idea, and the possibility that a jury could be involved, that it brought a "thrill"!
3. I found that behavior fascinating. Why would an adult act in this way? Well, that was pretty immediately clear to anyone who has spent time here observing the defensive tactics of the corporate posting contingent. But still worth explicating for any newbies who might drop by. Here was my response (condensed):
It's very threatening and embarrassing to the corporate-corrupted faction of the Democratic Party to have anyone loudly calling out and condemning their shameful capitulation to corporate money and the corporate agenda in important economic, war, and police state policies.
Thus the defensive smear tactic of trying to associate traditional Democratic positions on these issues with Libertarianism in order to discredit them.
The easier solution to the problem would be for Democrats to re-embrace the policies they were *supposed* to stand for all along. To commit to representing the people again, rather than Wall Street. Stop pandering to the corporate One Percent with private prisons and draconian drug policies and a fascistic surveillance state. Be the party that not only ends the spying and the warmongering and the outrageous drug wars for profit, but also reins in Wall Street, restores our Constitution, reduces inequality, and STRENGTHENS social safety nets.
Unfortunately, money-corrupted corporate Democrats continue to resist this easy-as-pie solution with all the might of their Wall Street-tethered wallets. Instead, they pour our money into ugly online propaganda campaigns to smear and encourage the smearing of anyone who dares to call out the ugly influence of corporate money on the soul and direction of the party.
Ugly, ugly rhetorical tactics, over and over again, always from the same group. And in combination with the real-life devastation Third Way policies are causing for Americans, I think this ugly approach is starting to backfire. I hope we are building momentum to clean up our government, because we all deserve better than this.
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Now you may carry on, BootinUp. I meant it about being finished this time.
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