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In reply to the discussion: Why Young People Are Right About Hillary Clinton - by Matt Taibbi [View all]cprise
(8,445 posts)21. Not really. Hillary is a police-state war monger to the core.
She'll react with platitudes and evasions when public outcry becomes too deafening, but she'll continue appointing Iraq war architects like Robert Kagan and Victoria Nuland and continually pushing for regime change in Libya and Syria and general destabilization. And who remembers the Clinton whitehouse was the original pusher of Bush's WMD lies and call for regime change? She was not new to the subject 5 years later when the IWR vote came up.
(And yes, she did run on her husband's record in 2008 and let Bill advertise them as a team.)
She has /consistently/ dealed for FTAs, and even lied about her support for NAFTA. So she is a class warrior in the economic sense, too.
Taibbi is being rather facile about her record.
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Electric Monk
Mar 2016
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Or it could just be that young people are naturally drawn to outsider candidates?
Blue_Tires
Mar 2016
#2
Not sure it's that young people are drawn to outsiders. My take on recent elections.
PoliticalMalcontent
Mar 2016
#9
Or it could be that they know that Hillary has gambled their future away.
Major Hogwash
Mar 2016
#13
I think young people who pay any attention at all see what is going on a lot better than
TryLogic
Mar 2016
#15
"... Hillary Clinton personally, has been on the wrong side of virtually all of these issues. "
Scuba
Mar 2016
#32
In the past, when teaching, I used tell kids that doing well in class would help then out in
DhhD
Mar 2016
#40
So much in Taibbi's article is the reality of how I see it. I just can't reconcile how this
Bread and Circus
Mar 2016
#42