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« on: November 10, 2016, 04:42:45 AM »
A large part of the Trump vote was anti-Hillary (as opposed to pro-Trump or anti-government).
Yet... Hillary corrupt and inauthentic? I will readily admit she has a 'presentation' problem yet even a modest amount of digging into her supposedly misconduct reveals very little substance.
The whole email thing may have been unwise (or more likely ill-advised) but the actual damage done was negligible (or zero), andt investigations concluded there was nothing criminally chargeable (I think I've posted on this before). And yet the Republicans have got months of mileage out this, and swallowed happily by many of the Kool-Aid drinkers. And Trump insists (and many believe) that not only was she guilty of crimes, she should be jailed! wtf? Really? I seriously have a lot of disrespect for people who just swallow this shit with their blinders on.
The Clinton Foundation is basically beyond reproach UNLESS you read the spin of right wing bloggers and politicians. Independent reviews of charities always place them high (and some at the top) in terms of money percent spent on 'final' product, and transparency.
The Benghazi issue has been debunked over and over.
And yet when the FBI director announced (and ONLY announced) some previously 'undiscovered' emails were going to be looked into, the Republican/anti-Hillary frenzy was insane. This reaction was from an announcement, for christ's sake of emails she was only marginally involved with.
So please... list some of her transgressions with supporting articles (and not from Rush Limbaugh and his ilk).
I have another sidebar (mentioned once before, I believe) on the Republican anti-Obama rhetoric which went into full steam after the Affordable Care Act was passed. That's when they adopted their scorched earth policy to insure that the seed of dishonest, inept, and corrupt government was planted firmly, and 'of course', it was all Obama's fault. It then become a relatively easy step to link all that with Clinton.
The economy is better now than it was 7 years ago, the unemployment rate is lower, and business indicators are positive and climbing upward. Yet a huge portion of the American public (yes, here I go again with that white uneducated demographic again) believe the country is in a shit-hole.
I have seriously avoided politics most of my life, but this episode is so beyond the pale that I am unable to stay silent. And even if Trump manages somehow to dump Obamacare, pack the Supreme court, unregulate a ton of business guidelines, I believe we can get past most of those without severe damage. What I am truly worried about is that if he trashes all the climate control agreements that we have just recently signed on to, he may actually hugely contribute to a pollution trend that will affect life in s seriously adverse way. We are on a knife's edge right now of creating an irreversible and harmful climate effect.
None of the above politics matters a crap if we live in a world unable to sustain life as we currently know it.
Shit... I am really depressed now.