The Problem With Hillary Clinton Isn’t Just Her Corporate Cash. It’s Her Corporate Worldview

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The Problem With Hillary Clinton Isn’t Just Her Corporate Cash. It’s Her Corporate Worldview.
Clinton is uniquely unsuited to the epic task of confronting the fossil-fuel companies that profit from climate change.
By Naomi KleinTwitter

here aren’t a lot of certainties left in the US presidential race, but here’s one thing about which we can be absolutely sure: The Clinton camp really doesn’t like talking about fossil-fuel money. Last week, when a young Greenpeace campaigner challenged Hillary Clinton about taking money from fossil-fuel companies, the candidate accused the Bernie Sanders campaign of “lying” and declared herself “so sick” of it. As the exchange went viral, a succession of high-powered Clinton supporters pronounced that there was nothing to see here and that everyone should move along.


The very suggestion that taking this money could impact Clinton’s actions is “baseless and should stop,” according to California Senator Barbara Boxer. It’s “flat-out false,” “inappropriate,” and doesn’t “hold water,” declared New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman went so far as to issue “guidelines for good and bad behavior” for the Sanders camp. The first guideline? Cut out the “innuendo suggesting, without evidence, that Clinton is corrupt.”

That’s a whole lot of firepower to slap down a non-issue. So is it an issue or not?

First, some facts. Hillary Clinton’s campaign, including her Super PAC, has received a lot of money from the employees and registered lobbyists of fossil-fuel companies. There’s the much-cited $4.5 million that Greenpeace calculated, which includes bundling by lobbyists.

http://www.thenation.com/article/the-problem-with-hillary-clinton-isnt-just-her-corporate-cash-its-her-corporate-worldview/

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1. The problem with Bernie is his stance on guns and his anger

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2. The Corporate Sate vs. our 200+ year history. No contest. nt

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4. Lol

I always laugh when Clinton supporters pretend Hillary has any sort of meaningful gun control plan.

No candidates do.

No plan put forward by any candidate will lower gun violence by even 10%, which is why she won't even begin to discuss the impact of her proposals other than to basically say that they'll make things "better" .

It's laughable.

And then to say that Sanders crappy plan is so much worse that you'd ignore everything else.. Just lol.

Frankly Americans don't really care about gun violence. They pretend to for a few days after each major tragedy but largely just accept it as the cost of doing business. It sucks but there you go.

As for him being angry - millions of Americans are angry. And anger isn't his only emotion either. As you well know.

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5. A very weak attempt at making an equivalency.

This is called false equivalency. It's something the right wing does all the time.

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8. Well Hillary is to the furthest right in the running! nt

[A Little Weird]

3. Excellent article

I absolutely agree - climate change is THE issue and HRC is not going to piss off her fossil fuel constituents. Bernie was the only candidate in the debate to pick climate change as the top issue.

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6. K & R. Great piece, Naomi Klein gets it all.

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7. I support Bernie. But I cannot wait for the primary to end.

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9. Mercifully, it's moving to the end stages.

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10. Kick and Recommend. nt.