2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: 538: Hillary Clinton was liberal. Hillary Clinton is liberal. [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)On the left, as I think you realize:
One of the reasons most of us who support Sanders and not Hillary is due in part to the fact that HRC is Pro Wall Street, and will do nothing abut the derivative trades or the lack of protections, which means we can expect to bail out the One Percent once again, just like we did in 2008 to 2011.
Now, a liberal wants banking returned to its Carter and Reagan era profit structure, wherein Bankers and Big Financial People do not get 48 to 49 cents out of every dollar of profit generated in this country, but only 8 or 9 cents, like they did circa 1981.
A liberal wants Glass Steagal put back in place.
The liberal crowd wants derivative trading strictly governed, such that one billion bucks worth of gambling on fifty million dollars of "deals" is not a possibility. And a liberal wants a No Bailout policy. If you' re too Big To Fail, you should be broken up into such small pieces that you will learn a thing or two about what it is like to struggle.
The liberal crowd also wants a real banking system created such that hedge fund managers are taxed the going rate of taxation, same as teachers and sanitation workers and firemen. We need a banking system that allows for small business loans and not the situation that exists now, wherein a small business person has to borrow money at 15% or more. Why is that? If they can have bankers provide for small businesses in Europe, that should be a possibility here in "The Ne World."
A liberal wants to rescind Citizens United.
A liberal wants most drug laws rescinded. Take the money we are now spending on prisons and put those monies to work for the people in terms of Universities, colleges and apprenticeship programs being for free.
A liberal wants fracking to be outlawed. We are now a nation that is trading our children and grandchildren's right to have drinking water for the sake of an energy supply that will be gone in fifteen years.
A liberal wants to repeal the regressive tax code that exists and replace it with a progressive tax, perhaps a VAT like they have in Europe.
A liberal wants jobs to be returned to the USA. These include manufacturing jobs, and also customer service jobs. Billing positions. Research and other higher education positions that are now handled by people in labs in Singapore or Shanghai. Return them to the USA.
It goes without saying that a liberal crowd wants to have Pro Choice be an option. Health situations should be handled by a woman and her physician, and not some group of legislators thinking about being re-elected by the RW "Christian" crowd.