I was surprised about his statement that Hillary isn't embracing a $15 an
hour minimum wage. I thought she'd switched from $12 to $15.
As for the "sleeping giant", it may be waking, but that doesn't ensure a
good end, unfortunately.
Miriam
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Ted Rall's article is light hearted, but with serious under currents.
For me, it all boils down to his remark, "...she won't embrace the
$15-an-hour minimum wage (she gets $225,000 for an hour-long speech but
wants you to settle for $12) - she's a creature of the corporations and
therefore the political right. She's not one of us."
***NOT ONE OF US!!!
Vote for Hillary Clinton, if you must, as the Lesser of Two Evils, but don't
ever confuse your vote with the belief that she is one of us.
After the first "presidential debate", and last night's vice presidential
"debate", I came to the scary conclusion that no matter who grabs off the
Brass Ring, we Working Class Americans are in deep doodoo. If a public
airing of the Democrats and Republicans differences was the intention, it
has to have been the entertainment's biggest flop this year. Two Hawks
trying to out Hawk one another.
But hey, both of these fellows are good Christian men, and they will really
and truly care for our young men and women they place in harms way, and they
will even care for the unborn babies so they might come into the world that
doesn't care about them, so they may grow up to be "cared for" as they also
march off to fight the Empire's Eternal War.
I am guilty of having said, in past messages, that our American System is
broke. Well, yes. Broken for us Working Class folk, but very effective for
those Elite members of the American Oligarchy. Things have never been
better, if we base "Better" on the accumulation of wealth and control.
But I truly believe that the sleeping giant, the working class Americans, is
waking up and beginning to stir.
While these "debates" focus on continuing to support the Empire and its
Elite, the debaters are totally ignorant to the slow rumbling building
across the Land.
Their time is running out. But we still need to develop the sort of
government we will find agreeable to our working class needs.
Carl Jarvis
On 10/5/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Clintonoids, Stop Bullying Me About My Vote
Posted By Ted Rall On October 4, 2016 @ 1:57 am In articles 2015
Comments Disabledstay home.
To my many friends and readers who plan to vote for Hillary Clinton:
please stop bullying me.
Also please lay off other people, progressives and liberals and
traditional Democrats and socialists and communists, citizens who
identify with the political left, who plan to vote for Dr. Jill Stein or
president I remember.
I'm not going to vote for Donald Trump. I agree with the mainstream
liberal consensus that he should never hold political power, much less
control over nuclear launch codes. He's dangerous and scary. But that
doesn't mean I have to vote for Hillary Clinton.
So I won't.
1. The main reason that I'm not going to vote for Hillary Clinton is
the same exact main reason that I'm not going to vote for Donald
Trump: I don't vote Republican. Being age 53, Nixon was the first
Hillary Clinton's politics (and her paranoia and insularity) remind meperformed badly.
of Richard Nixon's. I can't bring myself to think of a Democrat as
someone who solicits millions of dollars from Wall Street or votes
with crazy Republicans (like George W. Bush, whose stupid wars she
aggressively
supported) to invade foreign countries just for fun. She plays a
Democrat on TV, but we know the truth: she's a Republican.
2. I'm anti-political dynasty. There should be a constitutional
amendment banning anyone related by blood or marriage to a former
president from running for the presidency.
3. There's a big difference between an impressive resume and a list of
accomplishments. Hillary has the former, not the latter. I hold her
resume against her: she has held tremendous power, yet has never
reached out to grab the brass ring. As senator, her record was
undistinguished. As Secretary of State, she barely lifted a finger on
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, contributed to the expansion of the
Syrian civil war, and is more responsible than almost anyone else for
destroying Libya. What she did well she did small; when she went big she
"oops, my bad" screw-up.
4. #MuslimLivesMatter. More than a million people died in Iraq. She
voted for that. So she isn't, as the current Clinton campaign meme
goes, merely a "flawed" candidate. Voting for the violent deaths of
over a million people, and the maiming of God knows how many more -
when there was no reason whatsoever to think Iraq had WMDs - is not an
Thosethat's not enough.
were real people, real human beings, and they're dead because of her.
You don't get to soak your hands in that much blood and just walk
away, much less into the White House.
5. She still hasn't made an affirmative case for herself. By clinging
to President Obama, she's running as his third term. The standard way
to pull this off is to present yourself as new and improved: the old
product was great, the new one will be even better. Her campaign boils
down to "I'm not Donald Trump." No matter how bad he is, and he is awful,
than now?
Watching her in the first presidential debate, at the beginning when
Trump was besting her over trade, I kept asking myself: why doesn't
she admit that the recovery is good but has left too many Americans
behind? Why hasn't she proposed a welfare and retraining program for
people who lose their jobs to globalization? A week later, the only
answer I can come up with is that she has no imagination, no vision
thing.
6. She has made no significant concessions to the political left.
Frankly, this makes me wonder about her intelligence. Current polling
shows that the biggest threat to her candidacy is losing millennial,
working class, and Bernie Sanders supporters to the Green Party's Jill
Stein and Libertarian Gary Johnson. She would not have this problem if
she'd picked Sanders as her vice presidential running mate. Even now,
she could bag the millennial vote by promising the Vermont senator a
cabinet post. Why doesn't she? For the same reason that she won't
embrace the $15-an-hour minimum wage (she gets $225,000 for an
hour-long speech but wants you to settle for $12) - she's a creature
of the corporations and therefore the political right. She's not one
of us. She doesn't care about us.
7. My vote is worth no less than the vote of someone who supports a
major party nominee. So what if the polls say that Hillary Clinton or
Donald Trump will be elected president? Why, based on those polls,
should I strategically vote for someone whose politics and personality
I deplore? By that logic, why shouldn't they change their votes to
conform to mine? I have my vote, you have your vote, let Diebold add
them up.
I don't have a problem with you if you plan to vote for Hillary. This
year is the best argument ever for lesser evilism. But the fact that
we are selecting between two equally unpopular major party
presidential standardbearers indicates that the two-party system is in
crisis, if not broken. We need and deserve more and better options.
The only way to get them is to start building viable third parties -
voting for them, contributing money to them. What better time to start
Anyway, there's absolutely no way that my refusal to vote for Hillary
will put Donald Trump into the White House.
How do I know? Arithmetic. The closest state margin in an American
presidential election was four, in Maryland in 1832. Like you, I only
get one vote. Whatever I do can't and won't change the result.
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