There's battle lines being draw
That title is coming from
Bill Curry, a former Clinton White House adviser, writing at Salon. He feels that Hillary is oblivious to the changes that have occurred since the Clinton White House was a thing. He especially points to her evasion of any mention of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a mega global corporate power grab that she helped craft. He states, and I concur, that when the TPP passes with implicit Dem support, the grassroots will explode.
Hillary Clinton went to New York’s Roosevelt Island earlier this month to relaunch her campaign for president. Her first kickoff fell flat, perhaps because she herself didn’t attend, opting instead to send a video greeting card in which people she still insists on calling ‘everyday Americans’ shared their life plans. (To go to school! Plant a garden! Get married!) She came on at the end to say she had plans of her own that include being president, and that she does it all for us.
She delivered a 45-minute speech that told us little more than that three-minute video. She still won’t say where she’d peg the minimum wage or if she’d ever rein in the surveillance state or get us out of Iraq. Most amazing is how she finesses the Trans Pacific Partnership that President Obama so covets. It’s the biggest deal in the history of commerce; its investor tribunals would substitute corporate for democratic will here and around the world — and Clinton hasn’t said boo about it. Some ask how she gets away with it. I’m not so sure she does.
Surprise, surprise, people don't like losing their jobs to a
$73.94 per month usd Viet Nam worker. They don't like losing their hard fought environmental regulations to a corporation who will sue because they feel those regulations interfere with their profits. The
TPP threatens half a century of environmental progress just to strengthen corporations pockets.
Clinton is weak on the sleeper issue of 2016: corruption and voter distrust yet she blatantly hosts a fundraiser with a TPP lobbying firm. How's that for in your face disregard of the democratic party base, who is vehemently opposed to the TPP.
Clinton resists change. Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders is the only candidate in either party who seems to feel the tectonic plates of our politics shifting, perhaps because he’s expected the change for so long. His is still an improbable candidacy, but less improbable than it was a month or even a week ago. If he clears out the second tier, his battle with Hillary could become epic, forcing not just her but the Democratic Party to choose between the middle class and the donor class; between corporate and democratic rule; the battle over trade carried over into a presidential election.
The choice of the 2016 election is becoming clear . Do we want a democracy or an oligarchy ruled by multinational corporations?