American Exceptionalism is an Issue in this Election [View all]
H. Clinton is described as “tough”. The use of the word tough IMO in this case means tough on the rest of the world with pushing American Exceptionalism.
But just how “exceptional” are we?
We have 50,000,000 Americans living in poverty.
We have 16,000,000 of our children living in poverty and another 16,000,000 living in low income homes.
We have the poorest health care for our 99% (best in the world for the 1%) in modern world.
We have the widest spread between the haves and have-nots in the modern world. 20 families own wealth equal to 50% of Americans.
While millions of our children go to bed hungry we spend over 50% of our budget on war machines.
We have by far more people incarcerated that any other country. Conservative are making millions via Prisons For Profit.
We have militarized local police killing innocent AA males across the country.
We invaded Iraq for profits for the 1%. And we brought back torture. We still have innocent people locked up in Gitmo.
Our government, in 2008, allowed the big banks and financial gambling houses to loot $5 trillion dollars from the 99% without a whimper. They did nothing to prevent it before it happened and are doing nothing to prevent it happening again.
The Progressive Wing of the Democratic Party incl Sen Sanders are fighting for change to this corrupt culture while the Conservative Wing is fighting to continue the corrupt culture brought to us by the Wealthy Oligarchy.
Whose side are you on?
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