2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What specific POLICY POSITIONS show Sec. Clinton to be "Not Liberal" or "Not a Democrat?" [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)That should have been done a long time ago.
And we should take another look at putting alcoholic beverages on the list. (Just joking, but they are far more dangerous than marijuana appears to be.) I would, however, go further and monitor the quality and ingredients of marijuana to insure safety. That is complex but could be a direction for the future. People deserve to know what they are getting when they buy something labelled marijuana.
By the way, Hillary tries to copy what Bernie says and does. But her heart belongs to daddy, and daddy is Goldman Sachs, Monsanto Walmart, etc. the very huge corporations that co-opt our democratic institutions and have too much power.
I'm not opposed to capitalism. I like it. But democratic institutions should not answer to the wealthy in our society. Hillary is incapable of even understanding what the issue of corporate dominance in our society means to people. She just does not get this.
Yes. Government can become too strong a force in a society. It can impose regimental rules on people. But so can corporations. And today, the corporations are a threat to our personal freedom.
The internet is an excellent example. Hillary seems to be oblivious to the real threat that corporations with their intelligence operations and knowledge of us as individuals pose to us.
I wrote a very long post below. I hope you will read it.
Actually, Hillary's professed platform is of very little interest to many of us because we do not trust her. We view what she says as merely a means to get into the White House at which time she will do all kinds of things we don't want done.
I understand the approach in your OP, but it just misses the mark. It's not what Hillary says that matters. She once said that marriage was a sacred bond between a man and a woman or something to that effect. She sold fracking to other countries and now you claim she opposes it. She is just untrustworthy and unprincipled and changing her platform, her positions to try to win Bernie supporters as voters will just make her appear even less trustworthy. She is a machine that triangulates. And I do not mean that she is that personally. She is probably a loving and delightful mother and grandmother. But politically I do not trust or like her. Personally I have nothing against her. I do not know her.