That's probably because she spent the whole election talking about Trump
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Categorizing Trump on Immigration as 'Issue' is giving it more coherence than it actually had. You need to break down each issue into 'Rhetoric' and 'Substantive' to show that Trump was 95% empty bluster (and to be fair, Clinton was far too much feel-goody multiculturalism without much meat as to how to deliver it, at least in the speeches and walkabouts; expecting punters to actually check the website now seems hopelessly to overestimate the punters).
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I am making no excuses for the media in their role in the election, but Clinton's campaign was so wishy-washy when it came to messaging and taking big stances on policy. Trump and immigration could be boiled down to "build the wall." There was no mistaking his position. If Clinton had come out and said "$15 minimum wage" or "free public universities" or a basic, unmistakable, non-triangulated policy, she no doubt would have been attacked in the media, but the message would have gotten out there and people would have known what she actually stood for. The average voter isn't going to spend the time to look at a candidate's website and read over policy positions. It's like the Dem idea that people will be opposed to the government giving them healthcare, but they'd be happy to go onto a website and compare different exchanges and find what kind of coverage they could get based on their income level, etc.--the Obamacare dream.
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Originally posted by Tubby Isaacs View PostAnd "identity politics". Or civil rights, as it used to be called.
Imagine if MLK campaigned for people like Rosa Parks to be able to sit at the front of the bus, while simultaneously taking loads of money from Wall Street and privatising her bus route such that she could no longer afford the fare. That's the 21st century Democrats for you.
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Originally posted by antoine polus View PostIdentity politics is seeing social justice as separate from economic justice. Civil rights encompasses both.
Imagine if MLK campaigned for people like Rosa Parks to be able to sit at the front of the bus, while simultaneously taking loads of money from Wall Street and privatising her bus route such that she could no longer afford the fare. That's the 21st century Democrats for you.
Maybe Rosa Parks could have got tax credits.
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From the Tax Foundation.
On a static basis, Clinton’s tax plan would raise taxes on the top 20 percent of taxpayers and cut taxes for taxpayers in all other income quintiles. Taxpayers in the top quintile (between 80% and 100%) would see a reduction in after-tax income of 2.1 percent. Those in the top 10 percent (between 90% and 100%) would see a reduction in income of 2.8 percent. The top 1 percent of all taxpayers would see the largest reduction in after-tax income of 6.6 percent. Taxpayers in the three middle quintiles would see an increase in after-tax income of between 0.1 percent and 0.5 percent. The largest increase in after-tax incomes (2.2 percent) would go to taxpayers in the bottom quintile.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/...in_the_labour/
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Originally posted by Tubby Isaacs View PostOpposing voter suppression isn't "identity politics" because Wall Street. It's civil rights.
It doesn't really make much difference to Apple if the Republicans or Democrats get more votes.
But minimum wage or universal healthcare. Forget it.
I still don't understand how people can not see that Democratic politicians taking lots and lots of money from corporations is wrong.
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It doesn't say "income tax". It says "income", because they take into account all forms of income.
She did support a higher minimum wage, $12. Not all that different from "radical" John McDonnell's £10.
They got a lot more people covered for health. Would have got a lot more too if 19 states hadn't refused to expand Medicaid, or do it half heartedly. John Kasich isn't a lefty but he's managed to make it work reasonably well in Ohio. It's not Hilary Clinton's fault that about half the states are run by people well to the right of him.
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This is a hoot, if you haven't seen it before. "Intellectual Brexiter" says he's "warming to Trump".
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wa...rticle/2607212
The bit that Dan Hannan claims his 14 year old daughter said is hilarious.
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Originally posted by antoine polus View PostIdentity politics is seeing social justice as separate from economic justice. Civil rights encompasses both.
Imagine if MLK campaigned for people like Rosa Parks to be able to sit at the front of the bus, while simultaneously taking loads of money from Wall Street and privatising her bus route such that she could no longer afford the fare. That's the 21st century Democrats for you.
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