Thanks to minority voters who are “comfortable” with HRC, the American plutocracy will probably control the White House for four or eight more years. A few more crumbs may be left on the table for the middle class and minorities, but the wars will continue, the obscene defense budget will grow, and the inequality of wealth and income will steadily worsen. It will take another decade for the young backers of Sanders to work up enough political strength to challenge the plutocrat-funded Democratic party machine that the Clintons built, but that day will come.
I write this to remind those who are exultant over minority support for Hillary Clinton that they are installing a servant of the wealthy in the people’s White House. They are working to perpetuate wars that minority soldiers will bleed and die in disproportionately. They are working to continue the debt peonage that afflicts college students of limited means. They are working to sustain a rapaciously exploitative health care system that puts profits above patient health. They are tolerating the continuing offshoring of jobs. They are ensuring that Wall Street criminals are not prosecuted and jailed.
The super-predator Clintons have won another round, but their continued assaults on the public good will lead to the eventual triumph of anti-plutocratic forces. Only when the damage to our society is fully assessed will the Clinton supporters know the cost of their comfort.