The End Is Nigh!
Feb. 4th, 2008 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fr_defenestratoDemocrats are no longer Democrats. Frankly, I'm not sure I'm old enough to remember them being so, but I'm giving Jimmy Carter the benefit of my hazy memory.
Hillary Clinton says, "I believe in coercive diplomacy. I think that you try to figure out how to move bad actors in a direction that you prefer in order to avoid more dire consequences."
In other words, she believes in precisely what W. and Cheney and Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz &c. believed in when they invaded Iraq: that the ends justify the means; and I don't trust Ms. Clinton NOT to also mean W.'s corollary premise: that if the ends aren't really there, you just make them up.
In short, I trust neither Clinton nor Obama to lift a fucking finger to change the status quo by which the military-industrial complex and other pieces of the corporate oligarchy of this country are eating its citizens alive.
We will hear so much about universal health care in the coming months, for example, just like we heard it from hubby Bill and his crowd in 1993—and it will never happen; or if it does happen it will be a bait 'n' switch so flagrantly in favor of big pharma and hospital corporations and insurance companies it may end up being worse than the haphazard options we have now.
Why, if you're a politician at the Federal level, why in the world would you go after the richest people in the country and tell them they can't get richer?
Answer: you wouldn't.
They won't.
We're fucked.
Hillary Clinton says, "I believe in coercive diplomacy. I think that you try to figure out how to move bad actors in a direction that you prefer in order to avoid more dire consequences."
In other words, she believes in precisely what W. and Cheney and Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz &c. believed in when they invaded Iraq: that the ends justify the means; and I don't trust Ms. Clinton NOT to also mean W.'s corollary premise: that if the ends aren't really there, you just make them up.
In short, I trust neither Clinton nor Obama to lift a fucking finger to change the status quo by which the military-industrial complex and other pieces of the corporate oligarchy of this country are eating its citizens alive.
We will hear so much about universal health care in the coming months, for example, just like we heard it from hubby Bill and his crowd in 1993—and it will never happen; or if it does happen it will be a bait 'n' switch so flagrantly in favor of big pharma and hospital corporations and insurance companies it may end up being worse than the haphazard options we have now.
Why, if you're a politician at the Federal level, why in the world would you go after the richest people in the country and tell them they can't get richer?
Answer: you wouldn't.
They won't.
We're fucked.
