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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton: Less Minimum, More Wage [View all]Mr. Robot
(39 posts)I'm interested in her current stances on key issues.
I'm questioning her continued silence on TPP, fracking, Keystone and many more.
Bernie has been accessible to everyone on a daily basis. Clinton is starting to act eerily similar to George W. Bush, with "handpicked" audience and "grassroots" support requiring a minimum of $1,000 to be a part of it.
What Clinton fails to recognize is that the "grassroots" that she seeks are those who are associates of rich bankers or something. Not the real and disappearing middle class. Bernie shows that he doesn't have a minimum, just your support and love. That's what I like about Bernie. He's always consistent. Hillary is drawing possibly the Democratic majority, but it is *NOT* one the largest voting bloc - it's the Independents.. Bernie is gaining a large amount of that. That is a fact. Another fact is that many disaffected and apathetic voters are perking up on the real thing, not some "focus group" handpicked, specifically for a section of a class that is rapidly shrinking but gaining too much wealth. I am talking of the 1% having the same amount of cash as ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY MILLION other Americans, I find it completely wrong.
Hillary a left liberal? I don't think so. She is a slightly right authoritarian by definition.
One must remember, that the Democratic Party has drifted to the right for the last 30 years, that anything considered "far-left" ideas are actually MAINSTREAM ideas. It's the right of center that has gone too far. I'm not attacking Clinton in any way, but just observing that that is where Hillary Clinton is really at. Her ideas may be good, but it's not the kind of ideas I want, from a candidate that 1) Failed to keep her 2008 lead and eventually lose. 2) Has drifted to the right since 1992, with her voting issues still relevant such as her Iraq War Resolution vote that is still causing sectarian violence in Iraq today and 3) She is about as exciting as watching NASCAR for a few hours. Exciting in the beginning, boring in the middle, and just about half an exciting at the end, and always plenty of wrecks in the middle.
At the end, I want to vote for someone with his or her heart and ideals in the right place, and the right environment to represent a new set of ideas, and that's why everyone is excited. Hillary can't even create that kind of spark. In 2004, Howard Dean created a kind of spark, but fell flat at the end, but he did get people interested in voting, and was very successful with his 50 state strategy that brought the Democratic wave in 2006 and again in 2008, ushering in Obama. If Bernie can create that spark and sustain it, then the turnout will heavily favor the Democratic Party, but we all have to work together to make it happen.