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Any discussion of why Trump won and why Hillary lost has to acknowledge the fact that Hillary is genuinely corrupt and well known for taking large sacks of cash

• b1daly 10y ago
  I'm not sure if you'll get this, but I did want to respond. I agree there are valid criticisms to make of Hillary. My main concern is that she is so entrenched within the elite power structure, so captured, that her ability to steer US policy in better direction would be limited. If she could even perceive what that might be. The bottom line is that money talks in the US. She needs money to run a campaign, and she wants to make money for herself, like most people. She's friends with the elite, the Wall St. elite. Well, that's because she lives in the "real world", and the elite in US, both in position and income, hold disproportionate power. These people are not all bad. They are citizens too. We all rely upon the complex, and fragile, economic system we live in. I don't have an issue with Hillary taking big bucks for speeches. I listen to what she says, and what she has done. Some of it I agreed with, some of it I don't. That's life. Hillary is not any more corrupt than her peers. Probably less, as I think she still has some integrity. Obviously a large portion of the population hate her, so she lost. That doesn't mean she's corrupt. The right wing propaganda machine attacked her constantly. Considering how much she has been investigated, she's absurdly clean.