2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I'm old, white, liberal, female and disgusted. [View all]cui bono
(19,926 posts)You say you haven't seen anything like this even at the height of the 2008 election? Seriously? Hillary race-baited during that campaign. That was so disgusting. Current Hillary fans posted cartoons of her with HUGE capital letters saying 'LIAR' and sexist cartoons of her as well and now they defend her every breath. 2008 was much worse in that respect. 2016 is much worse in election fraud and the DNC tipping the scales for the corporate candidate.
Back to the lies and her not being progressive...
The lies go on and on and on. Have you not read anything about the OIG report? She constantly and consistently lied about that. Those are BIG lies and recent ones. If you don't think she is a liar then I guess you are not reading anything about her.
Also, she is not progressive at all.
She takes corporate money, lots of it.
She gives speeches to Goldman-Sachs, the content of which she refuses to divulge to the public.
She is for free trade agreements.
She is for the TPP. (we know what "in its current form" means)
She is for fracking and pushed for it worldwide.
She is backed by the private prison industry.
She was for mass incarceration.
She called young blacks superpredators.
She did some truly ugly race-baiting in 2008.
She is willing to compromise on a woman's right to control her own body.
She is a warhawk.
She is against single-payer health care, perhaps because she's gotten millions from Big Pharma.
Those are decidedly NOT progressive values no matter how you slice and dice them. And then she used some truly nasty smears against Bernie, the man who actually IS a progressive and who is not in any way, shape or form beholden to corporate masters. And she stood by silently as caucus leadership toyed with the election process in her favor, stood by silently as voters were disenfranchised, it's truly ugly what happened this primary season.
To answer your last question, she is a nasty, arrogant person and a dirty politician.
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