Must I love HRC or hate her AS A CANDIDATE?

[woo me with science]

38. Yet *another* OP all about personality rather than policies.

Yet ANOTHER invitation to argue about Hillary, utterly devoid of reference to policy.

Yet ANOTHER post pretending that elections in a democracy are about whether you like the candidate.

The corporate propaganda is deep, and thick, and it is trying to reteach us the meaning of "democracy," divorcing it altogether from the important civic meaning our elections once had.

We are flooded with OP's like this, that encourage fake "political" discussion that's not political at all. This is elections in a corporatocracy...vacant of policy, but full of bids to argue about personalities. We marinate in a sea of propaganda designed to pervert our fundamental understanding of democracy. To pervert the very meaning of the electoral process by pretending that it is the most natural thing in the world to detach political loyalties from policies and principles and attach it instead to team label and personality contests.

This is what happens when corporations buy democracies. Our presidential elections are now a sports event that, as the Princeton study showed, have virtually *nothing* to do with the actual direction of policy or of governance in this country anymore.

Princeton study: U.S. no longer an actual democracy
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025405658

We have TWO Superbowls in this country now. Two major, vapid, nationally hyped and advertised sporting events in which the people are urged to take a side and mindlessly cheer for their side to win. Where the most important policies that affect people's lives - the TPP, plans for Social Security, plans for corporate taxes and dealing with predatory banks, war policy, mass surveillance, police state policies - are assiduously avoided, and from which the media oligarchs, the political oligarchs, and the banking oligarchs profit BILLIONS.