Whatever one thinks about Hillary Clinton’s sincerity when she professes progressive values, the undeniable reality is that she has immersed herself for decades in the corrupting sludge of Official Washington and its sleazy pay-for-play schemes with Wall Street and other power centers, as JP Sottile explains. By JP Sottile It was supposed to be a…
Author and historian Michelle Alexander (source)by Gaius PubliusThough I've written about this myself, I don't want to advocate, but present. So consider this a horse race post. Clinton's self-admitted "firewall" is South Carolina in particular and the southern states in general, states with large numbers of minority voters.
Count everything, trust no one. One of the major and most critical issues involved in the Democratic Presidential Primary involves the suitability of HRC/HDR to become POTUS, given her history of reckless and irresponsible warmongering, being a Wall Street Shill and monomaniacal philodox.
Fact. Iowa entrance polls gave Bernie Sanders 91 percent support of people under 30. For New Hampshire it was 80%. Not bad for a 74 year-old white Jewish socialist from Brooklyn. This blows away and the lid off of those hoary theories that suggest millennial attraction applies only to the hip and inadvertent parvenu.
Everything But The Kitchen Sink Soup (source) by Gaius PubliusI hope this is wrong.
The problem, in a nutshell, is this: when people decide to support a prospective candidate in the US primary races they are putting themselves in the position of defending the indefensible. The very nature of this politico-Darwinist death match means that once you pick your chosen leader you must reject all criticism and suppress all doubt. You must become aggressively defensive and you must, above all, prevent your own wayward brain from thinking those bad thoughts that weaken the image of the immaculate leader.
To vote implies a valid selection for an election. We have none. Vote #LionelNation in a write in. The horror that faces this country and world for that matter is incomprehensible. That is all. And vote. For me. What do you have to lose?
For purposes of this story, notice the UBS entry. Source is a WSJ article (subscr. required).by Gaius PubliusHere's just one more look at the insider game that Sanders is threatening to break up. There aren't so many dots here that you can't follow them. Note, this is not about Clinton.
Desperate to blunt Bernie Sanders’s surge of support especially among young Democrats, Hillary Clinton is pitching herself as a “progressive,” but many of her policies were anything but – from supporting military coups to favoring corporate interests, writes Jeff Cohen. By Jeff Cohen In her speech claiming victory after the Iowa caucuses, Hillary Clinton proclaimed…
The imponderable. Fellow lover of sapience and reasonable liberty, I provide this to you but warn you that this is problematic. The state of our country, the criminal justice system and our political matrix are decrepit. These are very troubling times with little hope for improvement. You’re welcome.
