Warbler said:
Um, you do realize that even if she had won, the Republicans would still have control over Congress, right? I’d call that a check on her power.She’s a centrist neocon. She would have been waging war or paying militants to wage war for her across untold numbers of countries the world over. She would have continued corrupt economic and monetary policies that exacerbate wealth inequality and enrich the wealthy at the expense of the poor. She would have further entrenched the surveillance-police state.
The Republicans–which except for a few issues she’s hardly indistinguishable from–would have loved her. And the hypocritical center-left media would have lavished fete after fete upon her. The praise for her villainy would have been never-ending.
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I thought there were rules against conspiracy theories and ridiculous doomsaying.
Here’s an idea. Why don’t you get your politics from more places besides Rachel Maddow. I’m not going to do all of the work for you again, and watch you say “OMG source?” every time someone posts something that hurts your feelings, when these things have already been known and in the public for quite some time.
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Hillary Clinton quotes Dick Cheney verbatim on the campaign trail:
https://www.google.com/#safe=off&q=hillary+clinton+american+exceptionalism -
Hillary Clinton told NBC News that she supported Trump’s bombing of Syria, but says there should be more of it.
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/859464936296140800 -
Hillary Clinton, the architect of U.S. interventionist policy in numerous countries:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/magazine/how-hillary-clinton-became-a-hawk.html
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/27/hillary-the-hawk-a-history-clinton-2016-military-intervention-libya-iraq-syria/ -
Hillary Clinton, the Senator who voted in favor of the Iraq War:
http://progressive.org/op-eds/clinton-s-iraq-war-vote-still-appalls/ -
Hillary Clinton, the woman who suggested the U.S. should rig the Palestinian elections:
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Report-Recording-released-of-Clinton-suggesting-rigging-2006-Palestinian-election-471129
There is an exhaustive amount of evidence that Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy beliefs would be very much in agreement with congressional Republicans. Actually, she would be further to the right than most of them.
As for surveillance and the curbing of civil rights, all you have to do is type a simple search into Google and you will be rewarded with innumerable articles-- different months, different days, different years–in which she time and time again says that the U.S. needs more government surveillance:
http://time.com/4150694/hillary-clinton-calls-for-more-surveillance-to-fight-terror/
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/22/politics/hillary-clinton-surveillance-brussels/
https://fee.org/articles/hillary-clinton-and-donald-trump-are-in-lockstep-on-government-spying/
And as for trade and economic policy, she was for the TPP before she was against it:
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/hillary-clinton-trade-deal-229381
Leaked excerpts of speeches Clinton gave after resigning as secretary of state give strength to criticisms that her opposition to the TPP is little more than a campaign pose.
She was one of the people who helped design the TPP, then said she was in favor of it…then said she opposed it, when she thought she was going to win the presidency and the Republican congress was going to pass it during a lame-duck session of Congress last December.
She also refused to stand up against the Dakota Access pipeline, presumably because her banker buddies stood to make a windfall financing the project:
https://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clintons-silence-on-standing-rock-is-a-moral-mistake-and-a-political-one/
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/dakota-pipeline-protests/hillary-clinton-caught-between-key-allies-dakota-pipeline-n676356
I’m sorry I don’t have time to provide you with more than a dozen links from national news organizations, but I hope this will be enough for you. Seriously, just try watching something else besides Rachel Maddow or some nitwit’s twitter feed next time.