Hillary Clinton: just because she deserves her own thread
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What DOES that make her, I wonder? A democrapublican? A republocrat?
I think the word you're searching for is "centrist".
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What DOES that make her, I wonder? A democrapublican? A republocrat?- KIKI
I think the word you're searching for is "centrist".- KPO
I think the word you're searching for is "plutocrat".
The USA is an oligarchy and there's no getting around that fact. It's the wealthy who determine policy, not the people. And Hillary has her nose up the butts of the wealthiest of the (international wealthy) like Goldman Sachs. She's so much in the pocket of international capital, she doesn't need the (national) capitalists, like the Koch brothers, who are mere dirt under her fingernails.
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What DOES that make her, I wonder? A democrapublican? A republocrat?- KIKI
I think the word you're searching for is "centrist".- KPO
I think the word you're searching for is "plutocrat".
The USA is an oligarchy and there's no getting around that fact. It's the wealthy who determine policy, not the people. And Hillary has her nose up the butts of the wealthiest of the (international wealthy) like Goldman Sachs. She's so much in the pocket of international capital, she doesn't need the (national) capitalists, like the Koch brothers, who are mere dirt under her fingernails.
The United States is an oligarchy, but as is being witnessed today, we still have the power to take the country back. If Hillary wins and does not stay left leaning, she will not be reelected and the march to move the Democratic party back from whence it came will continue.
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What DOES that make her, I wonder? A democrapublican? A republocrat?- KIKI
I think the word you're searching for is "centrist".- KPO
I think the word you're searching for is "plutocrat".
The USA is an oligarchy and there's no getting around that fact. It's the wealthy who determine policy, not the people. And Hillary has her nose up the butts of the wealthiest of the (international wealthy) like Goldman Sachs. She's so much in the pocket of international capital, she doesn't need the (national) capitalists, like the Koch brothers, who are mere dirt under her fingernails. - SIGNY
The United States is an oligarchy, but as is being witnessed today, we still have the power to take the country back. If Hillary wins and does not stay left leaning, she will not be reelected and the march to move the Democratic party back from whence it came will continue. -THGRR
Either that, or the USA will become a completely totalitarian state, where people are being held in thrall while the banks suck the life juices out of them, like "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
I wish I had come up with that, but it was Matt Taibbi.
http://www.businessinsider.com/matt-taibbis-vampire-squid-take-down-of
-goldman-sachs-is-finally-online-2009-7
But it seems we agree- things can't go on as they have been, and they won't.
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Either that, or the USA will become a completely totalitarian state, where people are being held in thrall while the banks suck the life juices out of them, like "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
You mean like Russia, I don't things will ever get that bad here.
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Quote:Don't you think that's a little too personal to expect an answer? So why do you think you're entitled to one?
BTW - I've asked you a number of times and you've never responded (of course).:
How did you get your house? Cash?
But, as usual, you have precious little to say about the topic (Hillary, remember?) and a whole lotta personal jabs to add.
Troll.
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Either that, or the USA will become a completely totalitarian state, where people are being held in thrall while the banks suck the life juices out of them, like "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
You mean like Russia, I don't things will ever get that bad here.
Soviet citizens never thought it would get "that bad" either, and yet, it did.
I wonder if KPO will put this in the predictions thread?
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This is another SIGNYM 'so very obvious' habit - trying to denigrate the US and just be generally insulting (Troll) by comparing it to Russia. The whole "Oligarch" thing for example. Kind of funny when you think about it.
The United States is an oligarchy. A study from one of the most radical universities ... Princeton ... found that the wealthy get their way, virtually all of the time.
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Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens
Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page
Each of four theoretical traditions in the study of American politics — which can be characterized as theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy, Economic-Elite Domination, and two types of interest-group pluralism, Majoritarian Pluralism and Biased Pluralism — offers different predictions about which sets of actors have how much influence over public policy: average citizens; economic elites; and organized interest groups, mass-based or business-oriented. A great deal of empirical research speaks to the policy influence of one or another set of actors, but until recently it has not been possible to test these contrasting theoretical predictions against each other within a single statistical model. We report on an effort to do so, using a unique data set that includes measures of the key variables for 1,779 policy issues.
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens
_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf
I suggest you read it.
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Pansie.
troll
Quote:Why does it matter who I am IRL? Aren't we here to discuss "real world events", not each other? Either there is evidence supporting an interpretation of an event, or there isn't.
It's not a hard question and it IS about the topic, and no, it's not that personal. I have no idea who you are IRL.
Or do you prefer just to gossip and backbite?
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