John Nichols: Hillary Clinton’s Soft Populism Is Not Enough

[woo me with science]

11. Still dispensing the absurd, "Deny Hillary's entire predatory record" card, huh?

How embarrassing for you.

It's what corporate advertising does. Manipulate to sell.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6495421

Glossy pictures on a box, but great resistance to actually labeling the Monsanto poison inside.

Wall Street can't run on the issues, because the corporate agenda Hillary represents is predatory to the people of this nation and to democracy itself. Instead, we get slick, manipulative, vapid advertising designed to sell us the product that Wall Street has already decided to deliver to us.

Corporate America has been working a long time to pervert our electoral process. To turn elections into a profitable pageant and team sport, rather than a civic exercise to find the candidate who will best represent the interests of the people. They have worked very hard to divorce campaigns from actual issues as much as possible and to replace civic discourse with vapid fluff like Hillary's ads and the shiny object scandal, cute moment, or gaffe of the day. It is relentless, cynical, and viciously, deliberately antidemocratic.

"Official 2014 Democratic Party Survey" deliberately omits the most important policy issues
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5856363

Obama campaign REFUSES to disclose plans on Social Security to public, says discussion belongs with senators
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021483594

Lies upon lies upon lies...The standard MO of corporate politicians now.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026169801

Lies, Manipulation, and An Army of Propagandists
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6168908

Twilight Zone denials: the "deny Hillary's entire record" corporate talking points.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6478452

We are treated like blithering idiots and gaslighted to ignore reality itself
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6197744

This is the sickness into which our political system has been deliberately devolved by those who have purchased our electoral system and our government.

Nothing is more important than ending the cancer of corporate money in our electoral system. This garbage has become normal now, and we need to remind people of the electoral process that is supposed to define a democracy, in which the people's voices matter and in which candidates have an obligation to demonstrate that they will actually work for the interests of the people

These vapid, slick campaigns devoid of substance should outrage every American. So should the parade of insulting propaganda polluting our discussion spaces, in which posting mindless support devoid of content, demanding loyalty based on party alone, and attacking those who even mention the actual predatory policies of corporate politicians has utterly replaced the obligation to set forth the candidate's policy agenda and show why he or she would be the best choice.

We don't have a democracy anymore. We have a corrupt oligarchy systematically perverting our democracy into something more resembling fascism with secret laws, secret courts, mass surveillance, and the faux, glossy, utterly fake shell of a democracy.

Hillary is the poster candidate for this corruption. She represents the brazen continuation of the corporate sellout of our democracy that has hollowed out our middle class and systematically built an authoritarian, antidemocratic, corporate government to operate with impunity right alongside and instead of the one we are taught about in school.

This nation cannot AFFORD four more years of corporate dismantling of our democracy. It needs to end.

Hillary Clinton's leading role in drafting the TPP
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101667554

Hillary Clinton and Trade Deals: That “Giant Sucking Sound”
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016101761

Hillary Clinton Cheerleads for Biotech and GMOs
http://www.democraticunderground.com/112772326

Dissecting Hillary Clinton's Neocon Talking Points - Atlantic Interview
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017209519

NYTimes notices Hillary's natural affinity toward the neocons.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025205645

Hillary Clinton, the unrepentant hawk
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024876898

More from Hillary Clinton's State Department: The fascistic TISA (Trade in Services Agreement)
http://m.thenation.com/blog/180572-grassroots-labor-uprising-your-bank

How Hillary Clinton's State Department sold fracking to the world
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251376647

Hillary Clinton Sides with NSA over Snowden Disclosures
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101695441

On the NSA, Hillary Clinton Is Either a Fool or a Liar
http://m.thenation.com/article/180564-nsa-hillary-clinton-either-fool-or-liar

Corporate Warfare: Hillary Clinton admits role in Honduran coup aftermath
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025601610#post29

The Bill and Hillary Clinton Money Machine Taps Corporate Cash
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025189257

Hillary's Privatization Plan: TISA kept more secret than the TPP
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014829628

Hillary Clinton criticizes Obama's foreign policy 'failure'; strongly defends Israel
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014867136

Some of Hillary Clinton's statements on Social Security.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024379279

Hillary Clinton's GOLDMAN SACHS PROBLEM.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025049343

Ring of Fire: Hillary Clinton - The Perfect Republican Candidate
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017209285

How Americans Need Answers From Hillary Clinton On TPP, KXL, Wall St & More
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017181611

Hillary Clinton Left Out By Liberal Donor Club
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025809071

Why Wall Street Loves Hillary
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016106575

Hillary Clinton: Neocon-lite
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101684986

Interactive graphic of Hillary Clinton's connections to the Forbes top 400 (Follow link in post)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025824981#post9

Hillary Clinton criticizes Obama's foreign policy 'failure'; strongly defends Israel
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014867136

The Warmongering Record of Hillary Clinton "I urged him to bomb..."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026219783

Hillary defends Israel on Gaza carpet bombing
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025274041

Hillary tacks right of Obama on foreign policy.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024707589

Dissecting Hillary Clinton's Neocon Talking Points - Atlantic Interview
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017209519

NYTimes notices Hillary's natural affinity toward the neocons.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025205645

Hillary Clinton, the unrepentant hawk
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024876898

Hillary Clinton Praises George W. Bush and the Art of Compromise
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026394878

Hillary Clinton's role in right-wing Honduran coup and aftermath
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025601610#post29

Hillary Clinton's Horrifying Iraq War Vote Still Matters.
http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/hillary-clintons-iraq-war-vote-still-matters-9737

Secret recordings show US military and a Democratic congressman distrusted Hillary Clinton on Libya (lying, manipulating intelligence)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026157088

Hillary Clinton Blasts ‘Unfair’ World Reaction Over Gaza, Cites Anti-Semitism As Factor
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025364869

Obama didn't go as far as Hillary now says she wanted to go in smashing Syria
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251375376

Hand in Hand With Kissinger: A Review of Hillary Clinton’s Review
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016102317

Hillary Clinton Serves Us KISSINGER KOOL-AID
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025504036

MJ - Hillary Clinton Praises a Guy With Lots of Blood on His Hands
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025493748