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2016 Postmortem

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CheshireDog

(63 posts)
Sun Oct 25, 2015, 07:44 PM Oct 2015

Why do people attack Hillary as a capitalist? [View all]

Just curious why people here assume that all Hillary supporters would be upset at Hillary's capitalist roots? Or that she's supposedly less progressive than Bernie? Not all Democrats are determined to blindly support the most liberal option. We all fall on different areas of the progressive continuum - take me for example. I'm very socially liberal, but not so much fiscally. I live in an expensive part of the country where I cannot afford to pay more taxes and keep my quality of life. In addition, I depend on my 401k and stocks to hopefully retire someday - a president who is supportive of business and wall street is actually in my best interests. I think Hillary will be tough enough on businesses, but I don't think she will entirely destroy successful companies and levy taxes on them so high they see falling profits, perhaps delaying my ability to retire someday. I'm happy with that. Why is that a problem?

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Link? nt Xipe Totec Oct 2015 #1
Part of it is her speeches to the Wall Street banks that continue to violate U.S. laws: think Oct 2015 #2
Because she is one? They asked during the debate who's a capitalist. Cheese Sandwich Oct 2015 #3
Right - I'm asking why that's a problem? CheshireDog Oct 2015 #7
Capitalism is where homeless people freeze to death in the streets Cheese Sandwich Oct 2015 #16
Attack? By stating the truth? 99Forever Oct 2015 #4
Read the Post... CheshireDog Oct 2015 #8
I read your .01%er apologist post. 99Forever Oct 2015 #13
You don't have to be a 0.1%er ... CheshireDog Oct 2015 #17
What does that... 99Forever Oct 2015 #18
Big stock market crashes HassleCat Oct 2015 #5
Because money and working for corporations is EVIL, EVIL I TELLS YOU!!!! MohRokTah Oct 2015 #6
do you approve of banks rigging markets and no one goes to jail? think Oct 2015 #9
Most of what was done in the leadup to the 2007 recession was completely legal MohRokTah Oct 2015 #12
No. The market rigging where the banks became felons was after that. And these are the banks Hillary think Oct 2015 #15
Unethical and morally criminal. They tanked azmom Oct 2015 #20
Which was allowable under the law. MohRokTah Oct 2015 #21
The balance has tipped way too far in the rightward direction Armstead Oct 2015 #10
I eschew labels but if she wasn't a capitalist she would be the first president who wasn't./nt DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2015 #11
You are subscribing to chicken little azmom Oct 2015 #14
I feel the same way and it isn't a problem at all. leftofcool Oct 2015 #19
If you depend on your 401K and stocks for your retirement brentspeak Oct 2015 #22
You understand that the point of 401Ks is to generate revenue for wall street, not save for you. Half-Century Man Oct 2015 #23
I agree but CheshireDog Oct 2015 #24
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