Hillary Clinton’s Top Corporate Donors Are Among The Most Hated Companies in America

[dreamnightwind]

216. I absolutely believe that

We need a strong, articulate, likable candidate to try it. The truth can counter a lot of corporate spin, people feel the truth in their bones.

The problem is, with everyone on the corporate payroll, the people never get told the real truth, they never hear the cases made for alternative visions, the corporate "centrist" beltway conventional wisdom people team up with the media conglomerates and tell slightly different versions of the same story, with the truth faced by most citizens in their daily lives either completely off the table, or the reality of the pain in people's lives is given lip service but the obvious solutions (like reduce military and "security" expenditures by at least an order of magnitude) are never represented as serious ideas.

We must be the most under-attack nation in the history of the universe, the way we spend money on "defense" and "security". The truth is no one attacks us, and on the rare cases that they do, it is almost always blow-back from our military and intelligence adventurism overseas, controlling the governments and natural resources of nations around the world.

Military and security excesses are just one example, you can look at any sector of life through a non-corporate lens and arrive at very different policies that work out much better for the vast majority of citizens but not as well for the obscenely wealthy.

Obama got about half of his money from small individual donors, and he was a slick corporate politician who gave sufficient lip-service to people's problems to give them enough hope to donate (I donated to him in 2008). An actual change candidate who doesn't have to keep corporate donors happy can speak the truths no one else can.

It won't be easy, there's a lot of cultural programming that has to be overcome, there's a huge corporate media establishment that will fight it, but people are hurting, they're not seeing anyone with solutions because those people aren't part of the "agenda", and they will respond when the right message is driven home by a transformative leader.

I think Sanders is someone who has his head heart and message in the right place. Warren a little less so, pretty good though, and she has the leadership quality I don't see in Sanders. Perhaps someone I don't even know about. But I do think it can be done, and that it HAS to be done.

Acceptance of corporate money could be used against these candidates if we had a way to use that to stigmatize the candidate in the eyes off the electorate. I'd put a lot of energy in that direction, make them ashamed to take the money, expose and ridicule them endlessly when they do it.