Tonight as the results of the New York primary ooze in, I’m feeling physically ill. Hillary, with her plastic smile and her coffers overflowing with corporate greed-dollars, with her glad-handing and her waffling on every issue once she sees which way the wind is blowing — the more I see of her, the less I can stomach her candidacy.
With Bernie, I have a candidate whom I can vote FOR! With HRC, if she gets the nomination, I will be reluctantly putting my check mark next to her name, but only to vote AGAINST the GOP candidate.
Again!
Perhaps I’m a pessimist, but with a Clinton presidency I foresee nothing but business as usual — especially for business! Citizens United will roll merrily along, allowing Wal-Mart and the Koch Brothers and the NRA to continue running the government — why should Hillary try to stop it? All that corporate money is what will have won her the Oval Office! When even your headlining fundraisers are sickened by the “obscene” amounts of money you’re hauling in to play your little corporate candidacy games (think George Clooney) then you KNOW you’ve gone overboard with the Wall Street support and your pandering to the top 1%!
Bernie has no obligation to Goldman-Saks or AIG. He’s obligated where he should be — to the American people!
Under Hillary, the income gap will continue to widen. And you can say goodbye to any hope of free college education at state schools using a tax on Wall Street speculators (wouldn’t they just cry foul if Hillary tried to pull that one, after all the money they’ve thrown her way!) or a $15 minimum wage, or any of the other progressive, hopeful programs Bernie has been working toward.
With Hillary, life will just keep plodding along for the 99% of us who don’t float about in her rarified air, schmoozing with big-wigs and raking in a quarter million a pop for speaking engagements.
Don’t get me wrong — I deeply desire that the US should finally shatter the glass ceiling which such “backward” countries as India (Indira Gandhi) and Pakistan (Benezir Bhutto) and Israel (Golda Meir) long ago smashed, and join the 21st century by electing a woman president. But it has to be the RIGHT woman, and that’s not Hillary Clinton — not just because I don’t like her politics, but because I foresee her making a mess of things, thus proving to gleeful men that they were right — that women aren’t capable of running a country! All this talk of her having so much experience in government — a governor’s wife, a First Lady, a senator, a secretary of state — great! She’s got great exposure to government! But how successful has she been in any of those positions? What, really, has she achieved in all those years? And how has she changed things for the better?
If we’re going to have a woman president, let’s have Elizabeth Warren — now there’s a woman I could get behind! — sort of a female Bernie Sanders, with his attitude and his grit and his progressive outlook and his determination, and above all, his ability to “dream things that never were and say ‘why not?’” What a ticket THAT would have been! Sanders/Warren or Warren/Sanders 2016! Sounds like heaven on earth!
Instead we’re stuck with Hillary. Business as usual. Hillary. The doyenne of corporate greed. Hillary. Dogged by scandal after scandal. Hillary. “Go ask that crowd where they are marching to so that I may lead them!” Hillary.
I don’t think I can face it. What Lindsay Graham said about Trump and Cruz seems to me to be equally valid about having to vote for Clinton just to keep out any of the GOP candidates: what does it matter whether you are shot or take poison? You’re just as dead.
The only difference will be, with Hillary, we will die more slowly. With Trump, we’d get it all over with at one fell swoop!
I’m still fighting for Bernie, and I will till the convention comes along! I’m not giving up, and neither are many millions of us across the country!
Hillary. President Hillary.
I’ll do it if I have to, but I’d rather have a boil lanced...