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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Tue May 31, 2016, 04:38 PM May 2016

"She’s not going to change anything because she’s part of the people in power"

BUENA PARK, Calif. — Rallying hundreds of service workers who are struggling to get by, Hillary Clinton tried here last week to empathize with their frustrations and promised to deliver change.

But not everyone at Clinton’s Southern California rally saw the Democratic presidential front-runner as a credible change agent. Aguesin Garcia, a 47-year-old father of six who stocks grocery shelves for a living, shook his head as he watched her campaign.

“She’s not going to change anything because she’s part of the people in power,” Garcia said. “She’s not part of us. It’s as simple as that.”

That sentiment encapsulates one of Clinton’s biggest vulnerabilities in a general election against Republican Donald Trump that she otherwise is well positioned to win. Polls show a large majority of voters believe that the country is going in the wrong direction and that the political system is dysfunctional. They are hungry for change — and they see Trump as most likely to deliver it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clintons-challenge-become-a-change-agent-in-a-year-shaped-by-voter-fury/2016/05/30/73c7bca8-23ae-11e6-8690-f14ca9de2972_story.html
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tonyt53

(5,737 posts)
1. She was also in Detroit early last week receiving the endorsement of the SEIU.
Tue May 31, 2016, 04:40 PM
May 2016

She has also received the endorsement of most major labor unions. Oh, and the building trades unions plan on having a strong presence in Philly during the convention, just in case some people want to push things.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
2. Absurd
Tue May 31, 2016, 04:42 PM
May 2016

So is anyone. They are always "part of us" because they are American citizens. If you don't like anyone who has ever been elected to office you are too cynical to please.

Schema Thing

(10,283 posts)
4. She's a 100+millionaire member of the Oligarchy. She and her husband have made nothing
Tue May 31, 2016, 05:00 PM
May 2016

and sold nothing in their non-existent business careers, except political connections - to reach that upper position in said Oligarchy.

Dem2

(8,168 posts)
5. You forgot: Oligarch Third Way DLC Corporatist Triangulation corporate shill bankster warmonger
Tue May 31, 2016, 05:03 PM
May 2016

Your post is nonsense.

 

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)
7. The only change she'll facilitate is more conservatism. Way more.
Tue May 31, 2016, 05:16 PM
May 2016

More war in the middle east, more coups in this hemisphere, more profitization of essentials, and less regulation (laws) for wall street and transnationals.

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