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Showing Original Post only (View all)Let's be honest....nothing progressive can happen under HRC as president. [View all]
She'll be better than Jeb, but that's not saying much of anything.
She won't fight for working people(she can't, as a free trade supporter).
She won't ever stand up to Wall Street(the fact that she's backed everything they want so far proves she can never break with them later).
She won't stand up for the poor(her continued defense of the signing of the welfare reform bill in '96 proves that nothing Bobby Kennedy cared about means anything to her).
She won't get us out of the Middle East(she still buys into the "war can SO be liberal" delusion.
She won't make our foreign policy any less death-based at all.
She'll appoint some bland centrists to the Court and that will be the entirety of the thing-we can't even assume her appointees will overturn Citizens United(since that decision is probably the only reason a right-wing candidate like her happens to BE the frontrunner for our party's nomination at this point).
No great change will be possible. No one will be excited and galvanized by her swearing in or by any speech she will ever give.
All she can be is lesser-evil, a place holder for the corporate-military rulers.
Four or eight more years of bland centrism makes any further progressive policies in the future impossible. All the locks will be in place.
A vote to nominate HRC is a vote to give up, forever, on anything beyond tinkering at the edges. It's a vote to leave politics solely to a self-appointed elite...and to leave the tens of millions of people who are out in the cold in this system to STAY out in the cold.
Maybe she can "win", but just holding the office, by itself, isn't anything without core values, without passion, without a clear sense of who's side the person we elect is on.
I will support her if nominated...but let's just admit now that her victory will mean no more than Bill's victory in '96...and that victory turned out to be, for all practical purposes, meaningless.
We don't have to settle for "not quite as brutal", people. The country isn't THAT right-wing.