Came a crooked woman on a crooked path: Hillary Clinton and the 2016 Democratic rig

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I am not excited by Hillary Clinton becoming the Democratic Candidate. She is a friend of Wall street, a paid up member  of the military industrial complex and will see no real momentum on social justice or reigning in America’s war machine.

A vote for Hillary is a vote for the same elites and powerful who already run the establishment. Yes she’s a woman and yes that’s great the glass ceiling has been cracked but at this stage I’m more concerned about the flying shards of glass that will rain down upon everyone else in the world as collateral damage for Hillary’s CV.

The problem for Clinton is that Bernie Sander supporters see her as a prime example of everything that is wrong in American politics, not a solution to it.

I doubt very much, after a rigged contest where the Democrats Super Delegates have played such a hand in giving the win to Hillary that those spurned Sander supporters will do anything to help Clinton get elected, even if it means allowing Trump to trash the country for 4 years.

The Super Delegates were created by the Democratic Party so that no grass roots candidate promising actual progressive reform to America was ever in a position to win the candidacy and that’s what they did to end Bernie Sander’s mathematical chance of winning.

This isn’t a win for women, it’s a win for the same corporate elites who always own American politics.

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33 COMMENTS

  1. Once they elect this one to office, then we can talk about progress:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kshama_Sawant

    “Kshama Sawant (/ʃɑːmə sɑːˈwʌnt/)[2] is an American politician who sits on the Seattle City Council.[3][4] A former software engineer, Sawant became a socialist activist and part-time economics instructor in Seattle after immigrating to the United States…”

  2. This election is not going to end well for the world – two terrible candidates for America to choose from. I see a small glimmer of hope that HC will be canned due to ‘those emails’ – but as with the NZ’s election, too many $$ people make more money with Clinton at the helm.
    It has been an eye opener following this electoral race – ‘It shows ‘the system’ needs some serious changes. Not holding my breath for that…over the coming 4 years. Shame.

  3. Dead right!!! The world needs Bernie! The good news is people are starting to wake up and realize that Mainstream Media is corrupt!

  5. The revolution remains “verboten” in the mighty USA, as it has been since that only one universal revolution that there was in the 18th century.

    Hillary is indeed not the president the US needs, but is this any surprise, when large donors with corporate and other mighty influences are allowed to dominate the political landscape, and determine who gets support and airtime, and who does not.

    Bernie is the grass roots kind of man who deserves to run for president, not Hillary Clinton, even though some will say it is time for a woman president there.

    We have in the USA now something like political dynasties, like the Clinton’s and Bush’s, who have various family members, possibly off-spring also in the future, to run for high offices, that shows how corrupt the system is.

    The sick, corrupt system allowed only a wealthy “rebel” like Trump to rise on the Republican side, as a poor rebel would simply be pushed out as soon as he or she may raise their hand and say one word.

    And we have corporate media, MSM, and so-called “social media” (Fakebook, Twit Err, and so forth) provide us with servile services, simply parroting off what they first loud mouth in the bought media says, Hillary it will be, they announced just a day or two ago, where California and other state primaries were not even decided yet.

    We have the same nonsense here, turn on the crap breakfast TV programs, the “news” at six, which are a superficial, overly simplified, irresponsibly abbreviated summary of visual kind of “click bait”, promoting only topics and items that involve those that already have a name and some fame attached to them.

    This morning it was all about Key’s Prime Minister visit at Fiji, no mention of the decisions by two large banks to restrict lending to foreign property buyers in NZ, which only RNZ mentioned.

    The rest is endless weather and traffic updated, giggly interludes about frivolous stuff, VIP news and now also the “social media bunker” nonsense we get, oh, I forgot that overly important SPORTS section too.

    No wonder democracy goes down the gurgler or toilet bowl in New Zealand, like in other places, when we do not create and nurture informed and educated citizens with a citizen attitude, to play a role in society, we get the idiot society we now have, where elections are based on decisions who looks smiling enough, who appears competent and who has the smartest comments to make, no matter their intentions and delivery of policy (often only bribes).

    So we are stuffed, and the only place we get some alternative views is on the few media outlets (many from overseas) that still report real news, in NZ that is now RNZ, I suppose, and blogs such as TDB.

    The choice in the US will be between the plague and the cholera, a stuff all type of choice, I fear. All to simply maintain the status quo for the vested interest parties, and the elite that controls the show.

    • Absolutely Mike in Auckland,
      The only reason why we had a public media in the first place was so our public funded TVNZ and RNZ would “advocate” on the citizens behalf in the best social environmental interests for us all in our best interests as the taxpayers of this service, but the Industry loving National Government have spread our tax dollars amongst all private corporate media as well now so our own TVNZ and RNZ have to comply with all industry pressures to get a share of “NZ on AIR”

      We now effectively had our original independent citizens media watchdog been brought under the control by Steven Joyce to be influenced by Commercial interests now.

      We need all opposition parties now to exercise our rights to take our public media watchdog back under our control along with all “NZ on AIR” funding to devote our citizens rights to contribute to a ready to listen public media again as Australia, US, Canada and UK have.

    • Ike – good links except a lot of readers might not understand the real significance and it is FAR from a laughing matter.
      Hillary Clinton displayed the distinct traits of a sociopath and most disturbingly during that interview about Gaddafi’s death when Libya was “liberated” by America.
      Revealing & insightful commentary on this very subject

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfWU_9BDN-o

  9. Bomber, how do you respond to that Clinton supporting, corporate sell out Martyn Bradbury who said last April that Clinton should win against ANY male candidate based on her gender?

  10. Clinton = Labour
    Sanders = Mana

    NZ shouldn’t look down on the USA when we are worse. We have MMP. We don’t have a crooked two-party system forced on us. We choose it when we don’t have to

    • Clinton equals Labour? What planet are you from. When did Labour authorise the invasion of Libya? When did Labour institute an undemocratic coup of a democratically elected government in Ukraine. Did Andrew Little call President Vladimir Putin, a man with over 80% support from his people, Hitler. I don’t think so. Sanders is the best of a bad bunch and even his foreign policies are suspect.

      • Ike, you’re making specific comparisons, whereas I am looking at their ideological position. Specific comparisons are pointless because NZ’s and USA’s foreign policies are at different scales.

        NZ Labour are Blairites – Helen is our Tony Blair, and therefore our Bill Clinton. They’re known as third-way leaders (neoliberalism with a smiley face). That’s Helen Clark’s ideology. It’s the same as Hillary Clinton’s.

        Do you want me to give you a list of all the neoliberal positions Helen Clark took? I’m happy to shame Labour on here and show you why they’re neoliberal Blairites and Clintonites. Just say the word…I can go by their policies at the last election, or Helen Clark’s policies, which would you prefer?

        • If putting people in convenient little boxes helps you understand the world then go for it. I guess I do that too. Helen Clarke… moral, Andrew Little…moral, Hilary Clinton …Immoral, tony Blair…immoral.

          • I don’t think immoral vs moral is a good way to judge politicians.

            Helen Clark is trying to become the head of the UN. The UN is a brutally unjust institution – and Clark will do nothing more than continue the UN’s violence.

            Clark’s idea of ‘working for families’ is a sham – Key keeps that stupid policy doesn’t he? I don’t know how Clark fans on the left think the govt perpetuating a low-wage economy is a good thing? WFF is the govt substituting low wages – nice one. Is that what you call moral?

            And what about the Urewera raids? Was that moral? It’s hard to tell if that was Helen Clark’s idea of something George W Bush came up with for Blacks in the south of USA.

            Clark’s involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan was also problematic. A poodle for American imperialism, and not the anti-war hero many on the left in NZ think she was.

            However, holding a moral argument is pointless. You’re better to look at the ideological position of political leaders.

            Clinton, Blair, Obama, Clark and Little – they’re all the same and if you’re hoping Andrew Little will solve our problems in 9 years then you’re delusional. Little difference.

  11. This isn’t a win for women, it’s a win for the same corporate elites who always own American politics.

    And the USA has been owned by the plutocrats ever since its founding. In fact, it’s highly likely that the Founding Fathers actually wanted to set up an aristocracy with them at the top.

    From History of Democracy by B. Roper (Uni Otago)

    In order to do this, the Patriot leaders of the Revolution used ‘a language inspiring to all classes, specific enough in its listing of grievances to charge people with anger against the British, vague enough to avoid class conflict among the rebels, and stirring enough to build a patriotic feeling for the resistance movement’ (1999: 68). But this was a difficult game for the Patriot leaders to play because it required a balancing act, maintaining broadly popular support for the War of Independence and Revolution by appealing to universal notions of liberty and democracy, on one hand, while simultaneously defending the sanctity of property and the rule of a rich capitalist minority, on the other.

    • It too the “patriot” revolutionaries quite some time to abolish slavery, did it not? But the huge cotton fields had to be maintained and the crop had to be picked, surely not with the “sensitive” hands of white workers, and not at all by the land barons and the masters in the nice villas and mansions on the hills.

      • Not really:

        During and immediately following the Revolutionary War, abolitionist laws were passed in most Northern states and a movement developed to abolish slavery. Most of these states had a higher proportion of free labor than in the South and economies based on different industries. They abolished slavery by the end of the 18th century, some with gradual systems that kept adults as slaves for two decades.

        It wasn’t perfect but the movement to abolish slavery began at the same time as the revolution. The problem was probably the plutocrats who wanted to keep slaves rather than the people who wanted to work.

  13. 100% Martyn.

    For once you got it right.

    Hillary has no moral compass and is only interested in personal power and self enrichment. She has a decades long track record of corruption.

    Like Obama she will offer “Change you can believe in” but then appoint Goldman Sachs people and other country club friends on to her staff.

    The only way the Americans can effect change is to appoint a candidate who isn’t beholden to the club: A billionaire who can fund his own campaign…

    • Page and Brin as co-leaders! Yay! Go Google!

      ” A billionaire who can fund his own campaign…”

      Or one of the Koch brothers?

      Not so sure you’d admire the likely changes, though.

      ‘Sold down the river’ – for sure.

  16. But you have written before how Clinton should be president because she is a women and that it would be a good thing for equality. What changed since then?

  17. ‘The recklessness of the White House Fool and the media whores has gone far beyond mere danger. What do the Russians think when they see that the Democratic Party intends to elect Hillary Clinton president of the US? Hillary is a person so crazed that she declared the president of Russia to be “the new Hitler” and organized through her underling, neocon monster Victoria Nuland, the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Ukraine. Nuland installed Washington’s puppet government in a former Russian province that until about 20 years ago was part of Russia for centuries.

    I would bet that this tells even the naive pro-western part of the Russian government and population that the United States intends war with Russia.’

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-10/paul-craig-roberts-fellow-americans-wake-escape-matrix

  18. I was somewhat surprised to see (on tonight’s TV One news) Elizabeth Warren supporting Hillary Clinton.

    • yes it doesnt reflect well on Warren imo…why isnt she supporting Sanders?

      ‘Superdelegate tyranny?’

      https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/346073-us-electiom-clinton-trump/

      “Too quick to judge? The Democratic Party establishment and the media now call Hillary Clinton the presumptive nominee to face off Donald Trump in November. Though this is before the Democrats hold their convention and while Clinton is still short of pledged delegates. It would appear Clinton has been coronated and not elected.

      CrossTalking with Jeffrey Tayler and David Pollak.”

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