The Zachary Leven kind of centrist, pragmatic, incremental type thinking that underlies the support of Hillary Clinton drives more voters into Bernie’s arms every day. Such political worldview does not matters in the shadow of abject poverty, racism, institutional predation and rage felt by virtually every thinking adult not in the top 5%.
The writer goes to college and has a blog. How nice. Where is the discussion to lead anyone to believe Hillary Clinton will help:
- Students who are smart but poor and therefore cannot go to university or even trade school;
- Students and former students being crushed under debts to for profit banks;
- Ordinary Americans who are the subject predatory tactics by financial institutions from birth to death;
- To those who want justice meted out against Wall Street for it’s crimes of the century;
- To those many millions who still need health care beyond what the ACA offers.
It’s not there. The author can’t address these issues because his candidate won’t undertake radical change in times requiring radical change. No one wants Obama’s third term because Obama was, in essence, the best Republican President we have seen since Eisenhower. The ACA IS a Republican idea to assure middle man profits. Health care is a privilege not a right. Uh huh. Oh and weed is bad and mass incarceration is good. Hillary is actually the anti-third term. She is retrograde. Free trade, fracking, all good. Outsourcing all the work the middle class does is good too.
Taking millions from Wall Street doesn’t fly anymore for truly progressive voters and almost anyone under age 35. Hillary cannot serve two masters. She can’t serve the people and serve the part of corporate America that is bad for the people at the same time. She can’t tether herself to the corrupt campaign finance system we have and declare she will change it. ( Notice she has not). Asking the people to believe otherwise is an insult to our intelligence.
That’s why the issue is not Bernie. The issue is real change that Obama promised and didn’t even try to deliver.
This election is about us. Our vote. Our voice. Yes we know change will take time. But every movement has had a leader. But it ‘s not Hillary Clinton for this one. So, there is no other conclusion to draw others than the author is a paid surrogate or pretty much clueless as to the throbbing pain in big city, suburban, and rural America.