I don’t like Clinton, but I really don’t see her as being quite as bad as you imagine. She has worked on her political career over all else (and made too many rich friends with benefits), but her platform is geared towards helping many people besides herself, and not just the wealthy. Given her past efforts in the WH and Senate I think she’ll work towards her stated goals which are not “make me richer,” but green energy/fighting global warming, campaign finance reform, reforming college financing, gun violence, building infrastructure, etc., and has at least as good a chance as Sanders did of getting things through the Congress. She’s no Sanders, of course, and the poor/needy/most screwed aren’t going to be helped nearly as much, Wall Street isn’t going to be reined in, etc., but sometimes the critiques from the left seem as unrealistic to me as the critiques from the right given her past hyper-focus on policy. At least she won’t be an Obama campaigning from the left, then disappointing the left with a march to the center once elected.
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