2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary-phobes: Could Clinton Do Anything Right in Your Eyes? [View all]forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)Apologize for her full throated support for the crime bill, apologize (and I mean acknowledge the racist implications of the word, the dogwhistle politics it appeals to AND the conceptual framing that word represents which led directly to the deaths of young black males like Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown)
Give back, or donate to charity, all fees accrued from giving speeches to major Wall Street banks, release the transcripts and take responsibility for any overly supplicative words about the FIRE sector that nearly destroyed the world economy.
Acknowledge that SuperPACs and other dark money has a corrosive effect on our democracy, even if she has to make the argument that she HAS to take the money to beat the GOP (I don't think she needs to, though, the people that the old ways of campaigning work on already lean GOP anyway)
Pledge to fight for 15/hr minimum wage, LINKED TO INFLATION.
Renounce all support for "trade deals". at least ones without an ironclad guarantee that any wealth created from free trade is not simply accumulated by the wealthy.
That'd be the minimum for me to actually feel decent about voting for her.