JackRiddler
JackRiddler's JournalNonsense, it's capitalist culture and
the power elite oversaw it even if they didn't quite understand it, and the people ate that shit up.
Actually the correct answer would have been...
Come on, who cares?
And also: That kind of thing is trivial and yet private. We should talk about politics, not personal bullshit.
Something to have repeated at certain key moments, along the lines of: Consensual relations among adults are none of your business and furthermore, are not important to this job.
That might have changed the world, ha.
But of course, who the hell are we talking about? He was the problem!
Kasich ain't no moderate.
As a fascist in the lizard-skin of the mainstream politician, he affects as a "moderate" although his domestic policies are just as racist and anti-labor as Trump's, and on the question of how to approach the rest of the world -- you know, war and peace, whether or not to have an insane nuclear confrontation with Russia and Iran, etc. etc. -- he's obviously far worse than Trump!
She probably will win.
The demographics are impossibly bad for Trump, whose nomination win was predicated on moves that guarantee 30% or more of the population will be 90% against him. Trump isn't going to make up for that by winning 70+ percent of the white vote, even given low turnout, since outside his Republican Lumpen biotope most people can see he's a fucking con-man who got where he is by direct appeals to fascism. He will try to squirm out of some of the things he's said but people aren't going to forget the Wall and "the rapists and drug-dealers" and no admission for Muslims and all the misogynist shit, which the Clinton campaign will of course highlight.
Though he will make a contest of it by running as Bernie Reloaded in the general, attacking Clinton on Iraq and probably even coming out for universal health care and, who knows, announcing that he regrets the wall nonsense and hopes all peoples can unite in peace and love, blah blah blah. (Why the fuck not? It's not like he believes any of his current bullshit and as he's underlined, he can shoot a guy on Fifth Avenue - or even call for racial harmony! - and his base of WWE-Reality TV rubes and hedge fund assholes will still buy it.)
In the end the Chirac vs. Le Pen (or David Duke in Louisiana) logic of "vote for the crook, not the fascist" will apply.
Not at all. And the question strikes me as disingenuous.
Ever wonder why the machine politicians and rich people who run the Congress as a self-service cornucopia for corporate lobbyists and billionaires don't do anything to end the system of legalized bribery that put almost all of them in their seats?
Your question is actually the reverse of the reality: How do the few honest people amongst them stand to deal with the overwhelming majority of gangsters, fakers and poobahs?
The young power Sanders' campaign while the old cling to Clintonism.
At least, among those registered Democrats in New York who attempted to vote and were actually counted. Interesting results from that primary:
To which age group do you belong?
18-44
Sanders 55%
Clinton 45%
45+
Clinton 66%
Sanders 34%
http://www.cbsnews.com/elections/2016/primaries/democrat/new-york/exit/
"Hillary was the architect"?!
Since that's your nonsense and not a Clinton campaign statement - they've been dumb at times but not yet this dumb - you'd be smart not to repeat this nonsense. If it's picked up by right wingers it will end up a bigger joke than "Al Gore invented the Internet."
Almost 800,000 New Yorkers who were allowed to vote last week actually think the carpetbagger should stop pretending she has anything positive to do with our state. Don't you speak for us.
And if last week's election had been open to all New Yorkers in a single vote, Sanders would have been runaway first and Clinton and Trump would be fighting to see who gets into the runoff. If even that.
SHE BROUGHT IN KISSINGER!
That's not anyone's insinuation.
In response to whether she is a progressive, she ended up saying during a debate that her record as SoS received the praise of Kissinger!
Her "policy positions" are not the only relevant criteria. She changes these all the time.
More importantly, HRC has a RECORD:
- the lead hawk in the Obama administration
- pushed for the destruction of Libya without a plan for the day after, which Obama has called the worst mistake of his administration
- supported the coup d'etat in Honduras, with horrific consequences since
- pushed for an attack on Syria in 2013, which Obama nixed.
- her underlings pushed for the Ukraine coup d'etat of 2014, with the disasters there since
- as senator from New York provided essential support and echoed all the lies of the Bush administration in voting for the unprovoked war of aggression to destroy the nation of Iraq, with all the horrific consequences since.
- continues the bellicose and useless rhetoric against Iran and Russia, while fully backing the worst regime in the world in Saudi Arabia, primary state sponsor of the terrorists we supposedly fear
- the extremist right-wing government of Israel can do no wrong and must be backed at all costs
Of course Kissinger likes all that - and she CHOSE to invoke him as her mentor and supporter. In a debate!
No.
In any politics, one needs persistence to get numbers.
Surrendering because a round looks bad is preemptive capitulation.
Losing a round doesn't end the fight. 2017 will follow 2016. If the president is a neoliberal machine politician -- someone who embodies the domination of big money in politics, who supports more war, and who isn't ready to address the destruction of the ecological basis for human life on this planet -- then people will just have to fight to push or replace said politician. Tough. There is absolutely no reason for Sanders to surrender that fight now, or for you to expect that it does not continue into the future.
How about I don't care about "math." I care about politics.
Millions of people have yet to vote and they should have a choice. Of course Sanders will and should go to the convention with all the delegates he wins. If that's not enough to take the nomination, they should do all to affect the platform and change the undemocratic rules of the primary. I will be happy to help enable this with additional small contributions, along with the millions of others who have done so.
Sanders' politics are forward-looking and realistic, both obviously affordable in this very rich country and rooted in the reality of the true crises we face. Clinton's the one who embodies the continued domination of big money over politics and of a global strategy of perpetual wars. She isn't ready to even try to address the greatest real threat, that we are burning the planet (in a multitude of ways, with one of the biggest extinction events in evolutionary history underway).
If you wanted a single-candidate coronation, too bad. You can fight the future with smug invocations of delegate "math" if you like. Apparently the majority of voters under 40 see it differently, and they are the future, and the end of the New Democrats and their "bipartisan" neoliberal destruction is coming one way or another. Sanders represents the real old Democratic party, the party of the New Deal, and he represents the true future politics of this country, which will be small-d democratic. Whether that will occur within the Democratic party or outside it may for now remain in the hands of the tired old single-party machine nomenklatura, but that won't be the case for much longer.
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