Reticence created an enthuism gap

[JCanete]

53. Yes, but a fundamental component to knowing you're on the right track with your insider politicians

is if they aren't blowing smoke up your ass about being able to work with these corporations to get something done..."just trust us." To do what? The fact is you can't work WITH corporations, you have to come at them from a position of power, which means with the people behind you and pushing you to do something, so that the corporations don't have a good alternative but to give ground.

Clinton was very tepid with her language when it came to corporations running the henhouse. She was not convincing. Saying "I basically told them to cut it out" is an astonishing thing to repeat more than once. And when it comes to keeping corporations in check, Democrats have a middling record at best(which is far far superior to Republicans unquestionably). It is very hard to have faith that once a person gets in there without the groundswell of support for a hard line on corporate greed and influence, that we are going to get the candidate who fight against those things.

As to smearing. Either you talk about money in politics everywhere it exists or you can't talk about it at all. To just point fingers at Republicans is a poison pill to the message. You can call that smearing if you choose. There is no acceptable alternative to actually calling it out. There is no effective alternative to our party uniformly disavowing corporate media, and yes, that means angering some of our patrons. Anything else is us just going through the motions and keeping up the pretense of Democracy while the corporations either bilk us at a glacial pace, or a seismic one.