Is Hillary Running Away From Political Reality?

[jillan]

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Team Hillary should be extremely worried.

It’s not just that she has suffered landslide losses in the past five caucus states. It’s that she’s overwhelmingly lost the youth vote of all colors, everywhere, and she’ll never get it back.

[This Wisconsin poll just in: Sanders leads Clinton 49% to 43%. Sanders leads among all African-Americans 51% to 40%. Sanders leads among 18 to 45 year olds 65% to 28%.]
Not only is the youth vote incredibly one-sided, but so is the enthusiasm. Hillary’s vulnerabilities with young people include her perceived untrustworthiness, her emails, her vote for the Iraq War, and her shape-shifting establishment politics. But it all gets wrapped up into what she derogatively calls Bernie’s “single issue” — Wall Street.

Bait and Switch

Hillary’s next move is to switch the conversation away from the concentration of wealth and power on Wall Street. Instead she wants us to believe that our only concern is preventing another financial crash. She argues that her proposals are tougher than Bernie’s on “shadow banking” — hedge funds, private equity companies and the like. Therefore she claims she’s the most effective anti-Wall Street candidate.

Does she really believe this ridiculous slight of hand? Nobody else does.

Bernie and his young followers are not just worried about how to prevent another financial meltdown. They are worried more about the on-going meltdown that siphons our income and wealth into the hands of the few.

We are being financially strip-mined every day — from student loans, to pension rip-offs, to outrageous Wall Street fees for financing state and local government, to hollowed out corporations that ship jobs abroad and slash wages and benefits.

Hillary’s policy pirouettes won’t alter the fact that since the 2007 crash, 95% of all the new income generated in the economy has gone to the top 1%. That’s the financial meltdown we feel each and every day. She and her family do not.

Why Hillary Must View Wall Street as a Narrow Single Issue

When you receive over $9,600,000 in one year for speaking fees from Wall Street and other corporate groups, you just can’t say that runaway inequality is the key issue that’s ruining our lives. After all, Hillary and Bill made over $139,000,000 million over the last decade. They are among the very rich.

If we ever gain access to the contents of her paid speeches, we would see how deeply she shares Wall Street’s world view: They are good people. They are doing their job. Yes, they have a few excesses than can be controlled with smart regulations. No, we should not tax their speculative activities. No, we should not break them up. No, we should not set up public banks, heaven forbid!

But, she can’t ignore Wall Street entirely, try as she may. So she transforms the most powerful economic and political force in the world into a mere “single issue.” And then she implicitly places that single issue on a lower moral plain than racism and sexism. Voila! In her mind, she now captures the high ground by lecturing Bernie about his single-issue focus.

Hillary Supporters — You should worry hard about enthusiasm

Team Hillary believes that Trump and Cruz are so bad that she can’t lose. People will come out in droves, they argue, to defeat the bad guys. Call it negative enthusiasm. The kids will come out for her too, they reason. What choice do they have?

Well young folks just might do all the stuff that older folks say is totally irresponsible — stay home, write in Bernie, vote for minor third-party candidates. What really drives elections, especially now, is enthusiasm.

The sad fact for Team Hillary is that Bernie has it and she doesn’t. As that spirit comes pouring out from our kids, it becomes infectious. It’s political gold, not to be squandered. Without it, anything can happen — including Hillary losing to a Republican.

more at link...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/les-leopold/is-hillary-clinton-runnin_b_9589522.html

[yourpaljoey]

1. Looking for a landslide in Wisconsin

[rhett o rick]

2. The super Wealthy that always get their way aught to be aware that this is a revolution.

Install Queen Clinton and there will be a lot of angry peons. And that's not a good thing. Franklin Roosevelt knew that it isn't healthy to have men from the ages of 20 to 40 unemployed with nothing to do, so he put them to work. Clinton's answer is to put them in Prisons For Profits and make the lower classes pay.

[HassleCat]

3. Public banks!

That was a project of the original Progressive movement of the late 1800s and early 1900s. We have credit unions and cooperatives largely because the Progressives wanted to break the control of the banks, and give working people a way to save and get loans without being screwed.

[delrem]

4. There has never been such a crystal clear decision. /nt

[SheilaT]

5. She's part of the wave of the past.

Notice that a significant percentage of her supporters are older voters. Yes, it's true that in general older voters are more reliable voters, but already, in 2016, the Millennials outnumber the Boomers. Scary, perhaps, but true.

And given that Millennials are from 15-33 years of age, the very youngest aren't quite old enough to vote, but the older half is. And they care a lot. Plus, the younger GenXers (ages 34-55) are turning out in vast numbers, and I suspect the younger half tend to identify with the Millennials, she has a LOT to worry about.

In addition, I'm a Boomer white female myself, and I, and almost every other person my age I know, is a Bernie supporter. Okay, so I do know one woman my age and another who is a Millennial who are Hillary supporters, but they're outnumbered hugely by the Bernie people. Yes, I understand that my personal friends aren't necessarily representative, but I think the writing is on the wall.