Hillary May Have Just LOST This Campaign

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271. Here is the point

as clearly as I can make it. The country is full of people whose lives differ from yours, who MUST focus on issues of concerning their immediate survival and well-being. You have just insisted if they don't agree with you, despite having less privilege and fewer advantages, that they are the enemy, on the site of corporations. When you look down on ordinary Americans, you show you do not care about their lives and voices. and that turns them off. You seem to relish that position and insist anyone who doesn't abandon everything they care about to serve you is part of the problem. I submit the problem are those who deny the rights of the many to articulate and pursue their interests and insist their duty is to serve then. Whether they are in the upper 1 percent or upper 20 percent doesn't much matter. The commonality is that they insist their view is the only acceptable one and dismiss the voices and concerns of the majority.

I am not dedicated to making things work for you. You do not speak for me, and you do not represent US. You represent yourself and those who think exactly like you. You proclaim you know what is good for the little people, and if they don't go along with your bumper sticker slogans, they are aligned with corporations. You see them as less, as the problem, not as people with lives and interests that are valid. Your discourse is unencumbered by any reference to policy and reveals none of the insight of leftist theory. It is simply slogans, nothing more. (I don't know, nor do I care, what your half-baked reference to me as self-appointed corporate whipping boy means. I refer to CAPITAL. Capital, as Marx observed, is the problem. Corporation simply refers to a collective entity, which could be a non-profit, churches, or even tribal land holdings.)

I will not be joining the self-entitled white upper-middle and middle class in their anger that their bankers did them dirty and their more fundamental loathing for the majority of Americans, whom people like you undeservedly believe only you can determine what is best for. The problem is not that they don't know their own interests. It is that they won't abandon them for yours, and that is why you target them.

(As for the top 20 percent, that includes many on this site, including Sanders supporters. Did you not see the poll where people declared their incomes? The top 20 percent is households with incomes of $100k or more. Many here who go around insulting others as allied with corporations have that much or more, while they people they regularly insult have far less. Go figure. That is what I call elitist. I also consider elitist the conviction you articulation in your initial response to me that the majority of Americans are inferior to you. If that isn't elitist, what is?