2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary needs to dismantle Sanders' fantasies, but how, without losing the dreamers. [View all]VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)"Fuhrer" is father, and I don't think we're seeing Bill running again any time soon.
Onto the topic at hand, however, lmao no. I've said it before, I'll say it again-- I will have no part of putting a corporate gofer into the White House. Goldman Sachs and their ilk fucked us once. Last thing I plan on doing is putting in someone taking the very same money that was kicked back to Goldman Sachs in the first place. Or someone who voted for a war that crippled an entire region under the guise of "interventionism". Or someone who let two countries descend into terrorist coups. Or someone who is more than willing to maintain an alliance with the same people who created the sect of Islam that is currently claiming that they will destroy us. Me, this has a little bit to do with what you call "dreams", I'll give you that, but I'm also a millennial who took to the streets in 2012 for Obama until I realized that he dismantled his grassroots organizations.
I don't believe in dreams, I believe in gathering a team, and smashing and grabbing, and wheeling people out to guillotines if they get too comfortable in their corruption. The way I see things, this is a better outcome than setting a city on fire, and a hell of a lot better than cold nihilism. Senator Sanders is the reason I'm not an outright nihilist right now, and I plan to go to the wire and past it if it means fixing this country-- but I do not see anything being "fixed" other than the 1% getting more kickbacks if Hillary is the nominee. I don't see anything being "fixed" other than the rest of the middle east that hasn't been fucked up yet. I don't believe in anything being "fixed" other than more American blood shed in the name of profiteering.
So next time, attack the issues themselves, not people who are idealistic enough to actually want to get into the streets and change things.