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In reply to the discussion: I Truly Believe That There Are People Who Will Not Vote for Hillary Clinton [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)34. All the OP's on this reinforce my belief that the goal of both parties is a Republican in 2016.
Last edited Sun Feb 22, 2015, 06:16 PM - Edit history (3)
Both corporate parties, that is.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6261687
We live in an oligarchy, not a democracy.
Corporatists don't care which party wins, as long as the corporate agenda continues.
IMO both corporate parties want a Republican in next time. The Democratic Party is deliberately losing elections (Recall the DCCC "Accept Doom" email campaign) and deliberately alienating its base. Even the party mouthpieces are not just shoving Hillary down our throats, but being ostentatiously rude and obnoxious about it. The propaganda topic of the day everywhere is whether people will still vote for Hillary. I think they want people to abandon ship.
Why? Because six years of predatory Wall Street policies coming from a supposedly Democratic president have awakened too many people in the country to the fact that the parties are corrupt.
Once they have the Republican in office, I predict all the corporate Democrats will suddenly start pretending to oppose all these vicious corporate policies they have been shoving down our throats for eight years. The horrible policies will continue, but they will put on a good Kabuki show of being the vehement, albeit impotent, opposition party.
That way, the corporatists hope, the people will be reassured that we really still do have a democracy. We can stop all this silly talk about oligarchy and corruption. People will believe that the Democratic Party stands for their interests, and we can all go back to pretending that the only problem we have is that Republicans are in office and we need to get the corporate Democrats back in.
We live in an oligarchy, not a democracy.
Corporatists don't care which party wins, as long as the corporate agenda continues.
IMO both corporate parties want a Republican in next time. The Democratic Party is deliberately losing elections (Recall the DCCC "Accept Doom" email campaign) and deliberately alienating its base. Even the party mouthpieces are not just shoving Hillary down our throats, but being ostentatiously rude and obnoxious about it. The propaganda topic of the day everywhere is whether people will still vote for Hillary. I think they want people to abandon ship.
Why? Because six years of predatory Wall Street policies coming from a supposedly Democratic president have awakened too many people in the country to the fact that the parties are corrupt.
Once they have the Republican in office, I predict all the corporate Democrats will suddenly start pretending to oppose all these vicious corporate policies they have been shoving down our throats for eight years. The horrible policies will continue, but they will put on a good Kabuki show of being the vehement, albeit impotent, opposition party.
That way, the corporatists hope, the people will be reassured that we really still do have a democracy. We can stop all this silly talk about oligarchy and corruption. People will believe that the Democratic Party stands for their interests, and we can all go back to pretending that the only problem we have is that Republicans are in office and we need to get the corporate Democrats back in.
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I Truly Believe That There Are People Who Will Not Vote for Hillary Clinton [View all]
MineralMan
Feb 2015
OP
I think many assume these posters actually vote for Democrats. I've never made that assumption.
Tarheel_Dem
Feb 2015
#81
Nice callout. If you want my vote, you're going to have to select someone worth voting for.
NYC_SKP
Feb 2015
#5
No we don't. Back to school with you. Please read up on who comprises the electoral college.
NYC_SKP
Feb 2015
#14
No one said anything about the presidential run, the primary run is what this poster is talking
uponit7771
Feb 2015
#19
Hey Skp. I am not a one issue voter, I have many reasons I won't vote for Hillary.
Autumn
Feb 2015
#10
I will do what I can during the primary process to select someone else.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Feb 2015
#9
I Believe A lot Of Independents Especially Women Will Vote For Hillary...
Corey_Baker08
Feb 2015
#17
The problem is that the millennials, and especially the young black millennials
GuntherGebelWilliams
Feb 2015
#41
None of my three children or their SO's, all millennials, will vote for Hillary.
Ikonoklast
Feb 2015
#78
All the OP's on this reinforce my belief that the goal of both parties is a Republican in 2016.
woo me with science
Feb 2015
#34
You're arguing a strawman and avoiding the actual content of my post.
woo me with science
Feb 2015
#65
I've never voted for a nominee that was my actual first choice nor one I particularly liked
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2015
#57