As fellow denizens of a site ostensibly devoted to promoting people powered democracy, I am curious how people here reconcile their support for Hillary Clinton with the reality of where she is getting her campaign money from.
This is not snark. I am genuinely interested to know why her supporters are not bothered by this:
The Health Insurance Lobby (aka the Murder by Spreadsheet Industry) gives her more money than any other candidate of EITHER party. Rupert Murdoch holds fundraisers for her. She's the number 1 recipient of telecom industry $ in the Senate.
This DOES have consequences in the way she votes. For example, in the 1990s, she successfully lobbyed her husband to veto the Republican Congress's bankruptcy "reform" bill that made it impossible for people to escape credit card debt, calling it "that awful bill." But in 2005 2001, as a Senator receiving huge sums of money from the banking industry, she decided the SAME "awful bill" was worth voting for.
We NEED to end the pay for play system of government. People who frequent this site would seem to recognize that. So how do you see Hillary Clinton as the agent for doing this? Or do Clinton supporters actually LIKE business as usual in Washington?
I am genuinely befuddled. Please enlighten me.