Is This the End for Republicans? by Matt Taibbi

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17. I have no expectation Hillary will bring any incremental change.

She is hostile to anything that smacks of making everyday peoples' lives better. Affordable college, single payer? Stop asking for things, you brats! Fund every military action that comes along and continue to subsidize corporations without making a peep about cutting back on military expenditures or making corporations actually pay taxes! Sure! That's what grown ups do!

Well, anyway, to me pushing for Sanders was fighting for the changes I want. The Democratic PTB will have no part of this dissent. So ... what's next? Who knows. I don't think enabling the Clintonian M.O. is the way forward, though.

I was originally for Edwards in 2008 because he was the only one making a priority of progressive issues like getting people out of poverty. Well, obviously he turned out to be a giant schmuck. Then I was for Obama. I like him personally and I was hoping his constitutional scholar/community activist side would occasionally overpower his corporatist leanings he'd shown as a Senator. For the most part that didn't happen.

So now we have Hillary, who has a long record of being on the wrong side of things because she perceives it as politically expedient at the time. Not optimistic.

Anyway, good luck in the next four to eight years. We will all surely need it.