Hillary Clinton hasn’t answered a question from the media in 20 days

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188. The corporate bat signal has gone out.

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This thread is being swarmed with attempted ridicule by DU's familiar group of corporate posters ...the same little full-time group who defend every corporate outrage coming from corporate Democrats.

This thread is being swarmed with particular vehemence, because it exposes how sick and corrupt the messaging of corporate candidates has really become. This thread is considered dangerous to the corporate candidate, because it exposes the manipulative con game played on voters and the deep perversion of representative democracy that corporate candidates represent.

All the huffy ridicule and indignation being placed here can't disguise or divert from the simple truth: that it is OUTRAGEOUS that a candidate for president of the United States of America is deliberately avoiding taking positions on the most important issues that we face as a nation.

We are being retaught a fake corporate version of democracy by our political machines, in which issues are irrelevant and politicians have no accountability to voters. The Official 2014 Democratic Party Survey of Voters lacked questions about the most important issues of our time, including the TPP. The Obama campaign, running for re-election in 2012, outright *refused* to disclose its position on Social Security to voters.

This is the sick messaging of oligarchy, not democracy. How perverse is it that mouthpieces for corporate candidates would even DARE to try to excuse or normalize this sort of lack of accountability to voters?

We are fed shiny, vapid corporate ads with focus-group tested patriotic images and stirring music, instead of what we are owed by candidates in a representative electoral process: a clear vision and a specific policy agenda. That is by definition the purpose of elections, after all...to find the candidate who *best* represents the interests of voters. Yet we have grown so used to this insulting, diversionary pablum that we *almost* forgot what a representative political process is supposed to look like.

Almost. But we haven't forgotten.

We have an honest candidate in the race now who is talking *specifics* about how to reclaim this nation from the corrupt influence of corporate money and power.

That's why we see the swarming and vitriol from the corporate messengers now. They are in the impossible position of having to explain how slick, avoidant corporate advertising is an acceptable alternative to offering a clear agenda of issues to voters in a representative political system. They can't do that. So they revert to insults, swarming, diversion, and emotional attacks. They are hoping to inflame and divert from the gravely important message here: the perversion of democracy itself by corporatism. The deliberate perversion of our elections into theater and pablum and something profitable but not representational at all. The perversion of democracy into oligarchy.