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In reply to the discussion: What did Hillary think after Senator Byrd gave this speech? [View all]BainsBane
(53,027 posts)Naturally you don't want it pointed out that he was in the Klan because it interrupts your narrative of Clinton as the source of all evil on planet earth. You aren't going to vote for her. Point made. Why people can't just make their choices and move on, I have no idea. At this point it's all about clubbing one another over the head over their particular views of different members of the political elite, like it even matters. Sanders will transform America! He supports foodstamps! Clinton will destroy America. She voted for Iraq! She has friends on Wall Street!. It's all a substitute for refusing to think about actual issues or do anything about the problem. Arguing with all six people who don't despise Clinton amounts to nothing. It does nothing about campaign finance, about the corruption of money on our political system. What money has done is expose the relationship between capital and state. It has worsened the problem but hasn't fundamentally changed it, since the purpose of the capitalist state is to serve capital, and it has been since the inception of the Republic.
You all kept Clinton out of office eight years ago. Did corruption disappear? Inequality evaporate? Money no longer figured into politics? Of course not, and if you keep her out this time it will amount to F. all. They are politicians. That's it. Nothing more. They certainly aren't worth getting exercised about. While you are all engaged in this charade, money increases its power over politics, and people do nothing to bring about public financing, which is the only thing that will change any of this one iota. Moreover, you all don't want it to change. You celebrate Sanders' ability to raise money. You all don't have problems with capital. The defense of the corporate gun lobby shows that. You are angry at Wall Street because they did you dirty. You don't challenge the system. You perpetuate it by focusing on the charade that that a different individual will transform America, when basic civics should tell you that is impossible, even if you hadn't just watched Obama spent eight years impeded from implementing most of what he wanted due to opposition from congress. Yet you pretend that will suddenly disappear with a new president? It's ludicrous.