Is Hillary Clinton Running Away From Political Reality?

[eridani]

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/04/01/hillary-clinton-running-away-political-reality

Bernie and his supporters see Wall Street as synonymous with runaway inequality which is the key issue that connects so many of our problems. As a result, our kids are convinced that we need a massive political revolution. As Robert Reich recently put it:

Such a political revolution is the prerequisite for everything else - reversing climate change, overcoming structural racism, rebuilding the middle class, achieving equal opportunity and upward mobility for the poor, and avoiding cataclysmic war.

Hillary can’t abide by this revolution because it requires a full scale assault on Wall Street, which lavishly has funded her and her campaigns. So she tries to denigrate Bernie’s stance by claiming that his focus on Wall Street-driven runaway inequality is merely a single issue:

If we broke up the big banks tomorrow would that end racism? Would that end sexism? Would that end discrimination against the L.G.B.T. community? Would that make people feel more welcoming to immigrants overnight.

Her line of attack not only is failing, but also reveals why young people are so unenthusiastic about her — she’s far too tied to Wall Street and the super-rich to ever break from them.

[Betty Karlson]

1. K&R for exposure. And for truth. eom

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

2. I don't know how you can claim you're not influenced by money when you stack your admin with Goldman

Sachs, Rubinites (synonymous), and a Wall Street defense attorney. Then, in front of your very eyes, watch income inequality continue to grow? I don't know how you people have washed your brains over the Obama admin. I suppose you all got stuck with the GOP 401K scam and love the Obama bubble. Which makes sense that you would be terrified of Sanders and praying that Hillary protects that 401K. But it's a bubble. It will either burst on Obama in 2016 or Hillary. But people here are really old. Perhaps you're so close to cashing in you just need the bubble to last a little longer. That's how Republicans hook you. You won the lottery! For others, when the bubble bursts, everything you recaptured will be lost, and you'll have lost the lottery.

Yeah, Bernie wants to bring an end to the 401K lottery because it's a Republican scam that hooks Democrats like junkies and allows them to rationalize the eroding of the middle class.

Looking forward to the day you lottery players are endangered species and no longer relevant. You really fucked up. I salute you.

[Scuba]

3. K&R

[joeybee12]

4. It's not failing...it's a good point

But the deabeat's supporters can't see past their own self-righteousness.

[Kalidurga]

5. Nope it's treating poor people like they don't matter.

But, you know that. You have gleefully disregarded the principles most liberals believe in.