Iowa City Press-Citizen Writers Group: Clinton NO Progressive Candidate [View all]

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"...If Hillary Clinton were a male, would you support "him" over Bernie Sanders or Martin O'Malley?.."

If you have supported progressive Democrats in the past and you like Elizabeth Warren’s positions on issues, why would you support Hillary Clinton? Unless you want a woman President so badly that this desire outweighs any other considerations. If you favor overturning Citizens United, believing that money has corrupted our government to the point that it is an oligarchy instead of a democracy, why support Hillary Clinton?

If you oppose the Keystone XL pipeline and trade agreements like the Trans Pacific Partnership, why support Hillary Clinton? She has changed her position on those two issues in response to polls — as she has done on her vote to authorize the invasion of Iraq. Two Canadian banks with financial ties to the KXL fully or partially paid for some of Clinton’s speeches; nearly half her fees for speaking engagements, totaling millions of dollars, have come from corporations lobbying Congress for the KXL and the TPP trade agreement.The North America Free Trade Agreement, passed under the Bill Clinton Administration, caused factories to relocate, wiped out hundreds of thousands of jobs, and has been environmentally degrading. TPP would be similarly destructive.


On foreign policy matters, Clinton is a neoconservative. A vote for her is a vote for the status quo: continuing war, international intervention, hypocritical moralizing, and the killing of innocents abroad. Alternet reports that billions have been given to the Clinton Foundation by Saudi Arabia and defense contractors like Boeing and Lockheed. She supports the military-industrial complex. Clinton used racial strategies to attempt to defeat Obama in the 2008 primary. Black Lives Matter President Daunasia Yancey, referred to Clinton's racial justice record as "abysmal." The Huffington Post has reported that GEO Group and Corrections Corporation of America, which build and run private prisons, gave more than $125,000 to a political action committee set up for Clinton. The privatization of mass incarceration must end; but it will not stop as long as profit is to be made by putting people in prison, a majority of them black or poor.

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A significant part of Clinton's funding comes from Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, the ones who were instrumental in causing the 2008 financial crash and near-depression. These financial groups caused massive unemployment and were largely responsible for the collapse of home mortgages, forcing many people into homelessness. Clinton says that "maybe" these big banks need to be broken up or be more tightly regulated, while Sanders continuously cites these financial interests as the source of much of the country's still-depressed economy and supports strong regulation of the banking and investment industries. Clinton has taken money from Rupert Murdoch, attended social functions with billionaires like Donald Trump, and has spoken many times on behalf of corporate agribusinesses such as Monsanto, a company that has done more to poison the earth and its inhabitants than almost any other.


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