2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHas Hillary Clinton EVER made a convincing argument for economic justice?
I've listened to her a lot, but I have never known her to talk about poor and working class people getting the shaft, and how that should change.
Can a Clinton supporter here point me to a speech or moment from a debate when she actually took up the cause of economic inequality and wealth distribution and spoke about it as if she gave a damn?
Because I'm worried that those concerns are about to be swept into the memory hole - creating a pressure cooker of unrest.
ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)Unicorn
(424 posts)Glad to know.
In her book she says she went with her youth group and saw Martin Luther King speak and after that helped the Barry Goldwater campaign.
How the heck do you see Martin Luther King speak and then help fight against civil rights?
I'm glad BLM isn't supporting her.
Kip Humphrey
(4,753 posts)Now, where are those transcripts to refute my charge???
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)Unfortunately for her, she isn't running for President of the world.
Unicorn
(424 posts)She's doing enough damage just being Hillary Clinton let alone what she does foreign and domestic policy-wise everytime she gets in office. She sure liked to vote with the Republicans when she was a Senator.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)She constantly talks about fair wages, economic equality, ways to bring jobs to areas suffering severe economic hardship, and a lot of other aspects of the problem.
http://votesmart.org/candidate/public-statements/55463/hillary-clinton/82/economy-and-fiscal#.VxkXxVTrytc
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-clinton-goes-populist
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/7/13/hillary-clinton-highlights-income-inequality.html
http://correctrecord.org/the-points/hillary-clinton-a-lifetime-champion-of-income-opportunity/
Google has a zillion other links.
ProfessorPlum
(11,257 posts)but, take one for example, the msnbc link. She describes the symptoms of the problem, but not what can or should be done about it. How would she change it? I'm glad she agrees that it is a an issue . . . but is there more to it than that?
Then there is the speech in Detroit from the votesmart link. Again, she describes the problem, and talks about "making corporations pay" for inversions. And sort of half-heartedly talks about someday, raising the minimum wage. That is one of the right solutions, but her remarks are so timid, so business-as-usual, campaign rhetoric-y.
Where is the passion? Where is the urgency of people suffering and dying for lack of fair wages? She just doesn't care about all that, from what I can see and what I have heard.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)EndElectoral
(4,213 posts)Unicorn
(424 posts)I don't believe she concerns herself with the poor - who get the most unjust treatment.