2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I am getting a bit tired of constant victim status for Hillary [View all]ChiciB1
(15,435 posts)Hillary's inquisitioners last week and those that came before the latest one regarding all things Benghazi. One could fill in numerous adjectives ad infinitum and perhaps NEVER totally capture it's essence. So I'll just let others fill in the blank for themselves as they wish.
IMO, what I think so many people might not grasp about how and why she was able to come out looking and smelling like the best thing since sliced bread. From MY perspective since this began it really turned into a "witch hunt" as Kevin McCarthy alluded to a while back. Given our past history in this country of NOT holding politicians feet to the fire for much more heinous crimes I think what anyone might have thought REALLY happened simply was lost. They ran it so far into the ground that by the time she testified last week people were just FED UP with the issue altogether! The tail had been pulled off the tiger quite some time ago so how could it have looked like anything but a side show? What was there that could have made Hillary look bad now?
For me it was a given she came in holding almost ALL the cards and all she had to do was look strong and answer multiple variations of the same questions. The hearing came off as a farce with the inquisitioners looking more like a mob of rabid idiots who's blood pressure kept rising. The length alone played in her favor because by the time it was done I feel people lost total interest other than perhaps watching the idiots and their temper tantrums! THAT was the show!
I checked out early myself. Then let's ask ourselves what all this had to do with fixing any specific problem or what solution was offered. NONE! Did anyone come away thinking a problem had been solved? I didn't. Did ANYONE offer substantive fixes to anything that's so broken in this country? I "could" have missed it, but don't think so.
So Hillary stood her ground, helped them twist themselves into a pretzel and she comes out with a gold metal. I applaud her for her endurance and performance, but there was NOTHING there that told me her policies and what she wants to do if she becomes POTUS were any different from what she's campaigning on.
So, as a supporter of Bernie's I see NO reason to all of a sudden switch my support for him when for me he's MY kind of Democrat, and one has been vilified and tagged as some sort of wild "SOCIAL-ist" anarchist! I can NO LONGER support what our very own Democratic Party has become and I see no reason that Hillary is actually going to change the course it's been on since the DLC/Third Way hijacked it! Are they or are they NOT still beholden to Wall Street, Big Pharma, Insurance Co.'s and all the rest? Are they even listening or working FOR US anymore?? If they are, I see very little of it and I refuse to lie to myself that THIS Democratic Party will see any change if she's elected. What's worse is that we STILL have Debbie Wasserman-Schultz sitting pretty and seemingly selling her soul for heavens knows what! We're so close to complete Oligarchy I wonder how many realize the true reality of what this means.
As a woman myself, it's time to elect a woman... just NOT THIS WOMAN! That's MY opinion and I want better!