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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRolling Stone Endorses Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton for President"Idealism and honesty are crucial qualities for me, but I also want someone with experience who knows how to fight hard
By Jann S. Wenner March 23, 2016
....it is not enough to be a candidate of anger. Anger is not a plan; it is not a reason to wield power; it is not a reason for hope. Anger is too narrow to motivate a majority of voters, and it does not make a case for the ability and experience to govern. I believe that extreme economic inequality, the vast redistribution of wealth to the top one percent indeed, to the top one percent of the one percent is the defining issue of our times. Within that issue, almost all issues of social injustice can be seen, none more so than climate change, which can be boiled down to the rights of mankind against the oligarchy that owns oil, coal and vast holdings of dirty energy, and those who profit from their use.
Hillary Clinton has an impressive command of policy, the details, trade-offs and how it gets done. It's easy to blame billionaires for everything, but quite another to know what to do about it. During his 25 years in Congress, Sanders has stuck to uncompromising ideals, but his outsider stance has not attracted supporters among the Democrats. Paul Krugman writes that the Sanders movement has a "contempt for compromise."
Every time Sanders is challenged on how he plans to get his agenda through Congress and past the special interests, he responds that the "political revolution" that sweeps him into office will somehow be the magical instrument of the monumental changes he describes. This is a vague, deeply disingenuous idea that ignores the reality of modern America. With the narrow power base and limited political alliances that Sanders had built in his years as the democratic socialist senator from Vermont, how does he possibly have a chance of fighting such entrenched power?
I have been to the revolution before. It ain't happening.
On the other hand, Hillary Clinton is one of the most qualified candidates for the presidency in modern times, as was Al Gore. We cannot forget what happened when Gore lost and George W. Bush was elected and became arguably one of the worst presidents in American history. The votes cast for the fantasy of Ralph Nader were enough to cost Gore the presidency. Imagine what a similar calculation would do to this country if a "protest vote" were to put the presidency, Congress and the Supreme Court all in the hands of the extreme right wing that now controls the Republican Party.
...... (full article worth reading)
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/hillary-clinton-for-president-20160323#ixzz43jD8n28P
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Rolling Stone Endorses Hillary Clinton (Original Post)
MADem
Mar 2016
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Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)1. Says the same asshole who refuses to induct the Moody Blues into the Rock Hall.
Wenner is another over-monied self-important asshole.
MADem
(135,425 posts)7. Do you understand what "fan vote" means?
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/vote-for-the-2016-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-inductees-20151008
FANS must vote for them in order for them to be considered.
Get out on twitter or other social media, and get to work.
FANS must vote for them in order for them to be considered.
Get out on twitter or other social media, and get to work.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)10. The Dadrock Hall of Fame? Who cares?
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)3. KNR Thank you!
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)4. K AND R!
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)5. K & R. Thanks for posting.
R B Garr
(16,950 posts)6. "...vague and deeply disingenuous..."
Absolutely correct that Sanders' is vague and deeply disingenuous. It's still hard to believe people are this gullible, but shame on Sanders' for being so dishonest just for an ego boost.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)8. "I have been to the revolution before. It ain't happening."
That's the entire Sanders campaign encapsulated.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)9. Which one? Mick? Keith?