Just as being a poor republican makes little sense, I cannot vote for Hillary.

[Savannahmann]

275. But if we do vote for her, and we win, we still lose.

It's the old conundrum. Feathers or Lead? Would you rather get hit by a ton of feathers, or a ton of lead? Either way, you're going to die. So which is the prefered manner?

When it comes to corporate donations, and corporate sponsorship, we are just as bad as the Republicans. Yes, I mean that. I posted a long explanation here.

I've not seen a week go by where someone didn't post a rant against the Koch Brothers and how awful/evil/greedy they are and how they hope to subvert the Democratic Process by influencing elections. Yet, our own billionaire backers do much the same thing for our side. They fund the PAC's, and they give to Moveon and other organizations to get the people out and talking about the issues. So are our backers doing so out of kind hearted patriotic zeal and love for the common man? Did they get their money through strictly honorable means?

Bill Gates gets mentioned as he talks about Tax reform or helping the poor. During the Clinton Administration, he was sued by the Justice Department for creating a monopolistic company and squashing competition. So how did this monopolistic monster who was squashing competition and cheating people of choice become the poster child of the Left? Why he donated a tiny fraction of a percentage of his billions to a few charities and said some populist things and now he's awesome man.

Berkshire Hathaway? They've done much the same thing as Romney, buying companies and gutting them. They avoid FTC oversight by being family owned and operated. But they donate to our side, so they're a great company full of awesome rich people as opposed to the evil groups on the other side who donate to Republicans. Warren Buffet says he should pay more taxes, but he hasn't fired any of the dozens of Lawyers and Hundreds of Accountants he employs to make sure he doesn't pay one damn dime more in tax than he has to. But he says the right things, and donates to our causes, so we like him and his company.

So Feathers or Lead? Is it worse to have your economic future destroyed by Corporations aligned to the Right, or Left? Having Tar Sands Oil transported by a pipeline built and owned by the Koch Brothers is bad. Having Tar Sands Oil transported by a railroad owned by Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway is good. Because you never hear about a train accident spilling tons of crap all over the place.

So in this case, even if we win, we lose. We just lose to those who bought our side the victory.