2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Guess Which Candidate Top CEOs Prefer? Hint: It's Not Trump. [View all]GRhodes
(162 posts)I know the record of the trade model she supports, I know what the WTO has done and the decisions at the WTO (as well as recent NAFTA Chapter 11 challenges to environmental and economic regulations), I know the decades long economic decline domestically and the data associated with that, I know her actual foreign policy, I know about her decades of corruption, and I know how horrible it is for her to cite Kissinger (because I know what Kissinger freaking did). I don't need lectures from someone like yourself, someone saying stupid things and someone avoiding all of that, on being smart. You're arrogant for no damn reason. You seem to think you're brilliant because you're good at sticking your head in the sand.
"Now go look up the filibuster, the veto, the rules of the Senate of the US, the role of the House of Representatives, check the make-up of the Supreme Court for the past 20 years and their rulings on collective bargaining, guns, voter rights, class action, etc. etc., then get back to me."
So, this argument is what exactly? That Clinton and her husband were closet social democrats but the Republicans got in the way (actual reality be damned), that the Democrats haven't moved to the right in recent decades, that the Democrats aren't horribly corrupt? What does any of that have to do with NAFTA, the WTO, the Telecommunications Act, the gutting of New Deal financial regulations, deregulating derivatives, doing a u turn on the bankruptcy law (which Warren called out), her opposing a financial transactions tax (care to argue how high frequency trading benefits the domestic economy?), her opposing the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall, her opposing breaking up the banks (which even the Treasury and Fed supports), her backing every free trade bill other than CAFTA since she entered politics? Care to address her obvious corruption? Nope, you haven't shown you can do anything but call me names.
Get lost, done with you.