Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: Wow. I would have voted for Hillary and encouraged friends to, until this... [View all]rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)she turned her back on us and hippy-hopped over to the Republicons and bowed before George the Idiot King. She didn't just vote for the resolution she encouraged others to follow her to the Dark Side. She and those that joined her all have blood on their hands. Millions of innocent women and children were brutally murdered and the best we've gotten from her is that it was a "mistake". Really? Some of us were screaming at the top of our lungs at the time that it was a mistake. Actually I don't believe she thinks it was a mistake. Many of her friends got super rich from that mistake and possibly she even benefited her self indirectly.
(2.) She championed the elimination New Deal regulations that lead to the big bank crisis. Funny term "bank crisis" when her friends at the banks all made out like bandits. 5 trillion dollars was transferred from the 99% to her friends in the 1%. She probably indirectly profited from that also.
(3.) Just as importantly, she used her toughness to help the Prisons For Profits industry as Ashley Williams points out:
The 1994 Crime Bill that she so vigorously defended not only expanded incarceration, but stripped funding for college education from prisoners. The Clinton legacy allowed for policies that prevented anyone convicted of a felony drug offense from receiving food stamps or income assistance. Clinton-led welfare reform fundamentally ripped apart the social safety net.
Make no mistake, Hillary Clinton's efforts to push these policies resulted in the continued destruction of Black communities and the swift growth of our mass incarceration crisis.
Of course the Prisons For Profits have been very grateful to H. Clinton for their enormous profits.
I could go on and on, I didn't even get into the fact that she chooses oil company profits over clean water for us peons, or sending jobs overseas via horrible trade agreements.
Many I know are tired of being manipulated into the "better of evils" bullshit and just as soon see it all come down rather than die a slow death. Fuck those that put corporate profits before the health care and food for the 50,000,000 Americans living in poverty.