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Clinton’s corporate and financial support allows her to censor criticism and break election rules.
In the first week of March, Hillary Clinton won 8 out of 14 states and received over 3.8 million votes, which kind of makes me want to scream. It is appalling how anyone can like her, let alone have the immense folly to cast a ballot with an ‘X’ by her name; but I will admit: she has the best presidential résumé. She was Secretary of State for four years under Obama, was First Lady to Bill Clinton for nine years in Arkansas and eight years in the White House, and was a senator for New York for eight years. But she’s also a criminal. She lied about the Benghazi attacks, her relationship to Monica Lewinsky, her connections to Wall Street, and her multiple email accounts. She was fired and called “an unethical, dishonest lawyer” for her work in the Watergate scandal; she stole and destroyed documents related to a fraudulent scheme with Webster Hubbell and Vince Foster; and let’s not forget when she laughed gleefully at the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Despite all this and other disturbing and criminal scandals that plague her carrier, the establishment still wants her to be president in 2016, and they are doing all they can to get her there.
Corporations Love Her
It’s hardly the American public that enthusiastically supports her. In a Quinnipiac University poll, 67% of Americans find Clinton dishonest and untrustworthy (59% of Americans distrust Donald Trump), so aside from a bunch of uneducated voters, the ones supporting her most are politicians, corporations, and banks. Her current top twenty contributors include 5 banks (4 in the top 6), 8 corporate law firms, and 3 corporations, some of which gave her millions of dollars for private speeches from 2013-2015.
Aside from her support from major banks like Goldman Sachs, #8 on the list is media corporation Time Warner, the parent company of CNN, who declares Clinton the winner of every debate, even when Bernie Sanders is voted the winner on CNN’s own online poll. CNN also has Clinton campaign workers speak on the show posed as “Democratic strategists” to promote Clinton without any mention of their financial ties to her campaign. Not only that, but Clinton has support from NBC, News Corp (parent of The Wall Street Journal and Fox News), Reuters, and The New York Times. No wonder these pro-Clinton media outlets say Sanders has no chance of winning.
Politicians Love Her
Not only does Clinton have the backing of banks and corporation, but she also has the support of nearly the entire Democratic Party in both Houses, a dozen state governors, dozens of mayors, over 700 State legislators, and hundreds of other current and former political leaders across the world.
This connects to America’s system of superdelegates, which are a number of delegates per state that can vote for whichever candidate they please at the National Convention; however, most superdelegates are party insiders like the Democrats in the House and Senate, Democratic governors, and mayors. With that in mind, take a guess how many superdelegates have already pledged their support for Clinton. She currently has 457 superdelegates from party officials, with Sanders only having 22. Superdelegates only represent 15% of the delegate pie and although there are still over 200 unpledged superdelegates and they can change support before the convention, it is clear how hard the establishment is trying to give her the nomination independent of public opinion.
Fraud and Favouritism
As was seen in 2012, the fraud in the primary elections is so brazen it is impossible to ignore. As I mentioned two weeks ago, the Clinton campaign in one Iowa caucus purposely miscounted their supporters by adding their newly acquired voters without subtracting the ones that changed sides, giving her the easy victory that was only questioned by the Sanders campaign. Clinton won the state by only 0.29%, which led Bernie Sanders to demand the raw vote totals, but the Iowa Democratic Party chair, Andrea McGuire, would not release the numbers and said the results were final. McGuire is a long-time Clinton supporter and even has “HRC 2016” as her license plate. In the Nevada caucus, Clinton supporters were allowed to enter some caucuses without registering, thus allowing anyone, even non-democrat party members, to vote. Clinton won that state by a close margin as well.
Hillary has also been guilty of a 3rd degree Voter Violation in Massachusetts, when her husband and former president Bill Clinton campaigned for her within 150 feet of a polling station. He also campaigned for Hillary inside other polling stations; but despite him breaking the rules, closing the polling station he spoke at for over two hours, and a petition receiving over 100,000 signatures to have Bill prosecuted for the violation, the issue hasn’t been addressed. Clinton won Massachusetts by less than 2%.
Censorship
Not only is the establishment ignoring Clinton’s cheats, they are doing all they can to keep the public in the dark about her record. After #WhichHillary went viral on Twitter for highlighting Clinton’s hypocrisy and flip-flopping, Twitter suspended the initial activist’s Twitter account and blocked thousands of #WhichHillary tweets from users’ trending lists. It is important to note that Hillary has a close relationship with Twitter’s CEO Omid Kordestani, whom she recently held a fundraiser with.
In a separate incident, independent media organization WeAreChange inexplicably lost monetization on three YouTube videos that criticized Hillary Clinton. It should be addressed that in 2015 Clinton hired Google executive Stephanie Hannon as chief technology officer for her campaign; and Jared Cohen, the director of Google Ideas, used to be one of Clinton’s advisors.
To say it bluntly, Clinton has the whole corporate and political establishment behind her and they are doing all they can through finances, dirty tricks, and propaganda to make it a reality.
Beware The Trump
Assuming Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination and faces Clinton in the debates, he will have no problem highlighting all the skeletons she keeps in her closet. Trump has her email scandal, Benghazi, the Iraq War, the Lewinsky scandal, Chinagate, Jeffrey Epstein, Vince Foster, her relationship with Henry Kissinger, the conflicts of interest in the Clinton Foundation, donations from the Saudi royal family, her paid speeches to Goldman Sachs and other private groups, her connections to Wall Street, and many more. If Trump can defeat Jeb Bush through ad hominem, a poor campaigner like Clinton will be like a sheep alone with a wolf. Clinton could mention that Trump donated to her 2008 presidential campaign, but Trump could twist that and make it appear that she can be bought and he can’t. If she denies it, he can accuse her of lying; if she stumbles, Trump will call her incompetent. Clinton’s reputation cannot stand against Trump, so if Democrats want to stop him from winning the oval office, Sanders is the only candidate with the intellect and reputation to win.
Hillary Clinton is the embodiment of the US establishment. She has the support of corporations, banks, politicians, the media, and many ignorant Americans. She can censor criticism and cheat elections. She is a criminal, a liar, and is responsible for deaths in the Middle East that should have her in a prison cell instead of the President’s chair. Obama and Bush were puppets to the establishment, but Clinton is a much more dangerous personality. (And yes, even more dangerous than Trump, mainly because Clinton knows what she’s doing and has Party support.) I’m not overly ecstatic about any candidate in the 2016 election, but if I had to make a decisive choice, it would be easy: #AnyoneButHillary.