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

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Clinton is uniquely unsuited to the epic task of confronting the fossil-fuel companies that profit from climate change.

By Naomi Klein

There 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.


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

[PatrickforO]

1. I have a very good friend who believes that this is the very last gasp of

the capitalist monster. It tried to consume everything and has nearly ruined our earth with its endless quest for the uttermost farthing of profit.

But people are seeing now that profit is a dirty word if it is the only consideration. We must rethink our economy around human need instead of human greed. I have no problem with people who have valuable jobs making a premium salary but NO, I repeat NO executive is worth $20 million a year. Or even $5 million, or $1 million a year. They just aren't - NOT when the childcare workers who are raising most of our kids are earning under $10/hour. That's bullshit and all of us know it.

Bernie's talking about redistribution of wealth, and I say he's goddamned right!

[2cannan]

2. Thank you for posting! For the future of our

planet and all of the world's children, Bernie for president!