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In reply to the discussion: Just as being a poor republican makes little sense, I cannot vote for Hillary. [View all]Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)The current administration had an obligation, moral and legal, to investigate and punish war crimes. It chose to ignore those crimes, and by doing so, sanction their future use. People will be tortured in the future and will die because Obama gave the Bush/Cheney war criminals a pass. The current administration decided to continue an illegal war and to expand it, adding such new twists as using drones to murder people identified as "enemies combatants" by the CIA, and organization who has lied about its actions since it was founded. In the course of murdering these "enemies" they have also murdered other people completely innocent of wrong doing.
Why would I ever vote for ANY candidate who plans on taking advice from people who have committed mass murder in every decade they have existed? How can ANYONE vote for HRC when she praised Henry Kissinger? That alone displays that at BEST she is completely amoral.
On the economic front the Clintonian legacy was "welfare reform", which meant cutting people of from food and vile trade agreements like NAFTA which has decimated the working class, but paid HUGE dividends to the wealthy elite. The legacy also involved the destruction of an FDR-era law that DIRECTLY resulted in the economic collapse of 2007, causing misery and death worldwide.
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend" has never worked and never will. In fact, it is an absolute path to complete moral oblivion, whether practiced in foreign policy or politics.
I will not vote for the Vichy Democrats who seek to appease rather than defeat conservatives, all while enriching themselves in the process and lying to my face about it.