What Could Make Hillary Clinton a Better Democrat?
Since I can't post over there.....(maybe someone will steal this post, reword it a bit and post it over there for me hehehehe)
Well, I'm sure many people would have a lot of input on that question, but I'll limit mine to analyzing her policy stances from her website. The first of which on my radar is healthcare.
A side note: One needs a degree in “Chomsky” to be able to parse Mrs. Clinton's web site information. It is so full of newspeak, it's hardly worth exploring.
First and foremost, right at the top of her healthcare issue page, is the title, “Affordable health care is a basic human right”. Let's just stop right there and analyze this statement.
What the heck does it mean to have a “basic” human right to “affordable” health care? A human right to be able to afford something? That means one has to PAY to be able to exercise this right. So one would have to have money first, to be able to exercise this right to affordable health care. Who the heck defines what is affordable or not? I certainly can not afford health insurance, not to mention the out of pocket expenses and ridiculous deductibles. Remember, over 33 million people are still WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE!
Where is this right to affordable health care? The emergency room does not qualify as affordable, so don't even go there. Where is this right specified?
This statement / title on her Health Care Issues web page, can only be described as Orwellian Newspeak. Think about it. What “human” right requires you to buy something? What human right is only available to people that can afford these rights? What is good a right to affordable health care, if one can not afford healthcare? How is that right secured, and by what legislative mechanism applies? NONE! It does not exist, and she has not laid out how she will achieve this, nor whether this is actually what the majority of Americans actually want., which, btw, is not in fact what the majority of American actually want.
According to Physicians for a National Health Program , Kaiser Poll: 58% of Americans support Medicare for all (Dec. 17, 2015)
“the idea of creating a national health plan in which all Americans would get their insurance through an expanded, universal form of health insurance called Medicare-for-all. When asked their opinion, nearly 6 in 10 Americans (58 percent) say they favor the idea of Medicare-for-all, including 34 percent who say they strongly favor it. This is compared to 34 percent who say they oppose it, including 25 percent who strongly oppose it. Opinions vary widely by political party identification, with 8 in 10 Democrats (81 percent) and 6 in 10 independents (60 percent) saying they favor the idea, while 63 percent of Republicans say they oppose it. “
Interesting, 81% of democrats, 60% of independents and 37% of republicans, ah, 58% of Americans support it.
But according to Mrs. Clinton, we can't do that, it's not politically possible. Well of course if you don't fight for it, it will never happen. Why are you not fighting for us to have healthcare as a basic human right, instead of having a right to “affordable health care”. Big fucking difference.
How can one defend “affordable healthcare as a basic human right” compared to health care AS a human right, you fucking can't, unless you believe healthcare is a profit center for big business. You see, one idea acknowledges REALITY, one can not live without healthcare, and the other creates a supposed right, for only those that can afford to exercise that right. How the fuck is that “fighting for us”?
So, for starters, Mrs. Clinton could become a better democrat by championing health care as a human right, whether one can afford it or not. You see, over 40 thousand people a year are dying from lack of insurance BECAUSE they simply can not afford it. Gee, that's more people dying because they don't have healthcare than people dying from gun violence in this country. These people die because too many people in our country believe as Mrs. Clinton does, that our Mafia style healthcare system, pay or die, is really okay, that it should be a profit center for big business, rather than an investment in the health of our fellow citizens.
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Nothing
Her past makes it impossible to see her as anything other than what she is. You can't polish a turd. But TOS sure has been using the turtle wax to a point that it's ruined the surface for good.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
wax
Surface? It's wax, all the way down. No turtle. Or turdle, as we're talking about the Turd Way after all.....
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Actually
Mythbusters proved you CAN polish a turd. to a fin shine even.
Mythbusters
I know the Mythbusters. And Hillary Clinton is no Mythbuster.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
She could 'suspend' her campaign.
Ding, ding,ding! We have a winner!
Twain Disciple
A vigorous application of the Nuremberg laws
Might lead to better Democrats and better Republicans as well. I support the notion.
“If there is no justice for the people, may there be no peace for the government.”
Ditto.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
The POST war Nuremberg laws, of course!
“If there is no justice for the people, may there be no peace for the government.”
By not being a Republican....
Just a thought.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
A time machine
transport her 20 years into the future and she will be considered a socialist (if we don't make the changes we need)
in this timeframe? the fact that she is a great democratic party politician makes her a liability. Only pushing further to the imaginary center, serving her donors and oligarchic elites. starting wars all over the world and selling out the U.S. middle class, continuing to promote fracking and the end of modern civilization through global warming. . .
If you do not understand that being part of the "establishment" is a slur in the minds of 99% of the U.S. population then you are completely out of touch and probably are one.
Great minds... my first thought was "a time machine!"
A time machine and the personality (character?) transplant needed to go back in time and change her words and deeds. Many many do-overs. Failing that, she and Bill should have been honest about their political leanings and lived as centrist Republicans (of the eras when they came to public attention). Neither represents a Democratic Party that speaks for me.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
The only thing HRC could do to be a better Democrat IMHO....
...is retire.
Love of power is a puppet string. - Makana, Fire is Ours
Make an honest woman of herself.....
...... and register Republican. And take her whole "fam damily" with her!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Thought you were gonna say 'Marry Huma' !
So I rushed here to see your logic.
Oh well. That might have been a fun argument.
With their hearts they turned to each others heart for refuge
In troubled years that came before the deluge
*Jackson Browne, 1974, Before the Deluge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU
Divorcing Bill and marrying Huma
Would likely be inspirational.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
empathy and ethics transplant n/t
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
I doubt
Even seeing the death and damage done by her warmongering policies would shock her to being a better human, her laughing after her sick little joke "we came we saw, he died, Cackle" shows she is on equal footing to the men like Cheney in this world. But registering as Republican would at least be honesty.
So long, and thanks for all the fish
She can't be a better Democrat
She can't be a Democrat at all. She is instinctively Republican, contemptuous of those who are poor or are even ordinary, so proud of her association with those who "matter" that she is not even aware of how off-putting her ostentatious wealth and name-dropping are. She simply assumes everyone has those same values and would do what she's doing and take what she's taking if they could. She has been a social climber all her life. She drips condescension. She has never been, and can never be, a Democrat.
Twain Disciple
Go Away!
There is nothing she can do except go away.Yep I think that would make her better!
Go Away!
There is nothing she can do except go away.Yep I think that would make her better! sorry about the double reply not sure how to get rid of it.
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Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.
Make an honest dollar for a change
Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.
She's already too good a Republican
so nothing could make her a better Democrat. Maybe she should switch parties - there's been a bit of that going on lately. At least it would be a somewhat more honest label!
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Going with the Tin Man mataphor
Drop her into Anytown USA without her megabucks or face recognition
and tell her she needs a heart transplant.
See what she has to say about "affordable" after that.
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The woman's a fucking psychopath.
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The single biggest thing she could do to be a better Dem......
would be for her to bow out of the race! That woman is a menace to society and life at large on the planet. She is corrupt, greedy, power hungry, and dangerous.
I don't want her anywhere near the White House.