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rob05c  ·  3207 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Caucusing in Denver

    Hillary is pro-single payer

Nope. She wants to "extend Obamacare". Better than nothing, but it's a lot closer to nothing than most people think.

    pro-union

I don't believe it. It isn't possible to support unions while taking that much money from Big Business. Her campaign funders read like the Fortune 500. She says hedge fund traders hate her, a week after attending a fundraiser for them. Really now.

    pro-choice

Hillary supported neither abortion nor homosexuality until it became clear she wouldn't get votes without them. She declaims her abortion support with the statement it "needs to be safe and rare". Of course that's true, but declaiming it sounds disturbingly like Texas' "position". Regardless, abortion and gay marriage matter exponentially less since SCOTUS ruled on them both. The President has some power with them, but not remotely as much as with economic and foreign affairs.

    anti-TPP

Don't believe that either. She practically brokered it when she was Secretary of State. The Obama administration, which she emulates, heavily supports it. She came out "against" it when it became clear it would hurt her campaign. Just like every other stance she has. She'll support it the minute she's in office. Along with unaccountable drone war crimes, Big Business, Wall Street, flushing NASA down the toilet, and everything else Obama promised not to do.

    nominate liberal Supreme Court justices.

One of the very few things she'll do better than a Republican is nominate moderate Supreme Court justices.

Maybe I'm young and naïve, but I really don't see a difference in Hillary and the GOP clown car. I know it sounds crazy, but if it's Hillary vs GOP Stooge X, I'd rather see the Stooge take a swan-dive into feudalism, and hope it wakes the US up, than see Hillary continue the slow "boiling a frog" slide into feudalistic corporatocracy. I don't want to wake up twenty years from now in a feudal society, knowing I voted for it. I refuse to participate in a single-party system. I refuse to participate in an illusion of democracy.