| | | I agree with your analysis that not only has the average person not taken part in the recovery, I'll take it a step further and say that I believe we are now in control of a plutocratic oligarchy. I am a Bernie Bro, I attended our Democratic caucus and voted for Bernie. I did not support Hillary and fought against her. But I support her now.
And I have been critical of Obama and the Democratic party for not doing more to help the common person. But one has to remember that when Obama took over we were on the brink of the entire world collapsing economically. We were losing 800,000 jobs a month in the stock market was under 7000 and sinking like a stone.
I have been critical of Obama not prosecuting the bankers, or the tortures, or the plutocrats who are running our country. But if one takes a moment and looks Obama from his point of view, look at what the Republicans did from day one, they vowed not to allow Obama to be a successful president. They discussed among themselves to do everything they could to defeat Obama. They have never cooperated with Obama.
Against this backdrop, of trying to pull the country out of this economic nosedive, trying to get universal healthcare, like every other Western democracy, and having to fight against the entire Republican Party that was committed to his defeat, to also take on the plutocratic oligarchy, I think he felt was just a bridge too far.
Nobody has taken them on. Bush did not take them on. But I'm with you to the extent that I think that has to be a first order of business and that is exactly what the Bernie and Elizabeth Warren campaigns have been about. And I believe that when Hillary is elected, the liberals in the Congress led by Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Tusi Gabbard and all the liberals in the Congress are going to put great pressure on Hillary to address the control of our country by the plutocrats.
<<I say Trump is done>>
I have my doubts about that. The big problem for Clinton is most Americans have not taken part in the so-called economic recovery since the last recession and they figure they have nothing to lose if they make a change and vote for Trump. |
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