But that doesn't mean we have to accept it. Weaponizing corruption as a political issue is the necessary first step to ending it. It's not enough to claim, as Hillariacs do, that everything is fine because you don't have a quid pro quo conversation on tape. Due process of law does not apply to voters' decisions of what is acceptable behavior and what is not.

she would go away. That is the only thing I will accept from her. Something similar for the Democratic Party except I will accept evolving into humane human beings from them, not that I will rejoin them.

I think the USA would have been a better place if FDR had kept Wallace as VP instead of dumping him for Truman. Wallace was a progressive voice in the administration, Truman was a rather conservative MO senator.

Got blown to hell when she, DWS and the DNC rolled back Obama's rules on lobbyists and organizations financing the shindig in Philadelphia.
I have questioned why people believe what she says she is going to do after she is elected president, but then I remember how many people believe that Obama has been the greatest president since FDR.
After all he ended two wars (except he hasn't) and he hasn't started any new ones (except for Libya, Syria, pissing off China with the navy patrols just off China's waters, and putting troops in over 20 countries that surround Russia) and has saved the economy and has added so many(low paying jobs), and passed the best health care plan in decades (except people can hardly afford to pay their premiums and have such high deductibles that they can't afford to see a doctor) and everything he's accomplished (while the middle class is collapsing and income inequality is as bad as it was in 1928).
These are the people who believe that Hillary will be as great a president as Obama because she has said that she is going to continue his legacy.
tapu duli got HR'd last night when he wrote that Hillary will work with the republicans and privatize social security.
I don't know how many times I put a link to the article about how Monica Lewinsky saved social security because the scandal happened while Clinton was in the final phase of privatizing it.

No delete button for double posts ='( ?

I really don't care what that thoroughly bankrupt institution does or says, let alone nominates.

I wouldn't trust them with a toilet paper choice.

Con vs.Con

Con artists come in many varieties. On Wall Street, they can have Princeton University and Harvard Law School degrees, polished social skills and Italian designer suits that are priced in the tens of thousands of dollars. In Trump tower, they can have cheap comb-overs, fake tans, casinos and links with the Mafia. In the Clinton Foundation, they can wallow in hundreds of millions of dollars from corporate and foreign donors, including the most repressive governments in the world, exchanged for political favors. But they are all crooks.

The character traits of the Clintons are as despicable as those that define Trump. The Clintons have amply illustrated that they are as misogynistic and as financially corrupt as Trump. Trump is a less polished version of the Clintons. But Trump and the Clintons share the same bottomless guile, megalomania and pathological dishonesty. Racism is hardly limited to Trump. The Clintons rose to power in the Democratic Party by race-baiting, sending nonviolent drug offenders of color to prison for life, making war on “welfare queens” and being “law-and-order” Democrats. The Clintons do a better job of masking their snakelike venom, but they, like Trump, will sell anyone out.
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Liberals, as part of the quid pro quo with the establishment, serve as attack dogs to keep us within the deadly embrace of corporate capitalism. Liberals are tolerated by the capitalist elites because they do not question the virtues of corporate capitalism, only its excesses, and call for tepid and ineffectual reforms. Liberals denounce those who speak in the language of class warfare. They are the preferred group—because they claim liberal values—used by capitalist elites to demonize the left as irresponsible heretics.
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Liberals are employed by corporate elites in universities, the media, systems of entertainment and advertising agencies to perpetuate corporate power. Many are highly paid. They have a financial stake in corporate dominance. The educated elites in the liberal class are capitalism’s useful idiots. (Oh, oh, he says something the KGB guy said too,in Alligator Ed's essay... ) They are tolerated because they contribute, by discrediting the left, to the maintenance of corporate power. They do not think or function independently. And they are given platforms in academia and on the airwaves to marginalize and denounce those who do think and function independently.

The battle between a bankrupt liberal class and the left will color the remainder of the presidential race.

Campaigning will ignore ideas to elicit emotions—fear, anger and hope. Insults will fly back and forth over social media. The race will be devoid of content. Clinton and Trump, in this world of political make-believe, will say whatever their listeners want to hear.

After November, our role will be over.

Worse than just sad.

it turns out the rotten, arrogant, and abusive mouthpieces we should have been freeing ourselves from were those nominally leading our own side.

I'd feel cheap and used if I fell for so little. Didn't even get dinner and a movie first? No flowers?

Good thing I gave up political sex long ago!

edited for "can't spell worth a damn tonight"