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In reply to the discussion: Open letter to progressives: You’re doing it wrong and it’ll cost the Democratic Party [View all]shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)that killed a million of my Arab brothers and sisters. That happily sold cluster munitions to Israel that continue to blow the legs off Lebanese children on a weekly basis. That threatened to annihilate Iran. That supported Barry Goldwater when he threatened to use atomic weapons against the people of Vietnam.
A venal, corrupt woman who can't resist tapping her foot when the war drums start pounding, and who will approve the next war, sporting her best steel-eyed, flinty-chinned Maggie Thatcher pose, for fear of looking weak to the folks back home.
Whatever the "process" is, however many bullshit TV ads she will run with shiny happy multiracial people in them, that will be the outcome.
And yet I am told, as a non-American, that I have no skin in the game. And even worse, that this perversion of logic is somehow meant to advance the interests of "people of colour"? Because apparently she's going to employ some black people on her staff?
What a macabre circus this must seem to America's victims around the world, to the mothers of agent orange babies in Vietnam as they suck their food through straws.
Venal. Corrupt. Shameful.