It’s
largely a choice of style, not substance, dirty business, as usual, continuing
no matter who succeeds Obama. Still, Snowden has a point.
Hillary Clinton, like
husband Bill, got super-rich through speechmaking, lucrative book deals, and
other Big Money handouts.
Lots came from Wall
Street and other corporate supporters – a rogue’s gallery of crony capitalist
interests buying influence.
Her public financial disclosures show she earned $2,935,000 from
12 speeches to Wall Street banks alone from 2013 – 2015, five for $225,000 (her
usual fee).
Deutsche Bank paid her $485,000, Goldman Sachs, an astonishing
$675,000 for a single speech. Wall Street banks are her leading campaign
contributors.
Over the same period, her
financial disclosures show she earned $21,667,000 for 92 speeches to private
organizations, mainly crony capitalist interests – expecting handsome dividends
from their investments, the way dirty business in Washington works.
America’s political
process is too corrupted to fix, a Big Money-controlled one-party state with
two wings. All duopoly power candidates march to the same drummer – differing
only in style, not how they intend governing if elected.
Uninformed, out-of-touch US voters are easy marks to be fooled each
electoral cycle. Media scoundrels promote the illusion of democracy, existing
in name only.
Popular interests are ignored, independent candidates entirely shut
out. Names and faces change. Dirty business as usual wins every time.
Scattered reforms won’t work. Transformational change in needed. The
only solution is a popular grassroots revolution.
The alternative is endless wars, neoserfdom, and tyranny, a horror
no one should tolerate.
