Hillary Clinton is One Tough Mother

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133. How is she conservative on economic issues?

Bumper sticker internet slogans are not policy differences. Just because you and your pals repeat something over and over again doesn't make it true.

What evidence do you have that Clinton is conservative on economic issues? I see her as more progressive than most of the people here who express a view of economic justice that seeks to restore the white middle-and upper-middle class back to what it sees as its rightful position atop the capitalist order. I looked at Sanders website and it gives no policy or proposals, simply a paragraph offering a critique that could have been written by anyone here.

I won't be voting for someone to validate your anger at Wall Street, particularly since I am not of the privileged economic class that even has any interaction with the bankers you all are so angry at. Nor will I stand with people who dismiss my basic rights as "Third Way," or worse. You all denigrate the basic civil rights of the majority of Americans, offer no economic alternatives, and repeat empty slogans. That is hardly convincing and in fact many here use those terms in ways that are purposefully alienating and exclusionary.


And as for being cozy with Wall Street. Another bumper sticker slogan that says nothing. Is that a reference to the present state of campaign finance that you refuse to concern yourself with and instead project it onto Clinton? Or to the fact that Wall Street was in fact in her Senatorial district? I find such slogans tiresome, particularly when they eschew any critique of capital itself. I'm guessing like many here you see Wall Street as worse than the merchants of death whose profits Sanders votes to protect. I myself believe murder profiteering is a worse crime than usury, and I find rhetoric about "corporate" this and that rings hollow when it excludes merchants of death, or any other business or capital you all happen to find useful. Voting against gun control promotes war at home, a war that has taken over 1.4 million lives since 1968. I think voting with the GOP on gun issues is unconscionable. But then again, I differ from many in valuing human rights, life, and civil rights above the pocket books of the upper-middle class. You will vote for your interests, I vote for mine.

So by all means, you vote based on your labels and bumper sticker slogans. I will vote in favor of my own interests. They clearly are not the same as yours, and I am done being insulted by people who insist they have the right to compel the rest of us to do their bidding. You have one vote, and it doesn't include mine.