Republicans recently found dirt they can use on Hillary Clinton, and they’ve already managed to blow the situation out of proportion.
While Clinton was Secretary of State, she used her personal email account to conduct business instead of her official email address. What a scandal!
The Republicans are desperate for a comeback in 2016, so they have to wear down Clinton as early as possible. They know they can’t get her on her policies, so they have to resort to turning everything into a scandal.
Clinton used her personal email account because she legally could. The Obama administration recommends using a government email account, but government agents can use personal accounts as long as they keep a record of all the emails sent.
Clinton should have done a better job keeping a record, but this seems like more of a slap-on-the-wrist issue than anything.
If we’re going to attack Clinton, let’s focus on real policy issues instead of dramatized fluff.
She’s a war-hawk corporatist whose interests are in the well-being of her wealthy donors. She supported Bush’s failed foreign policy, and she told Wall Street bankers they’re “misunderstood.” These bankers are the same people who drove us into a recession in 2008.
They’re not misunderstood at all. They’re criminals who robbed the American people.
Clinton also doesn’t support major progressive issues until the polls are high enough in favor of it. She waited to support gay marriage until a majority of Americans supported it. And she’s still on the fence over marijuana legalization and reform.
Back in 2005, Clinton supported a bill that made it harder for families to pay off credit card debt. And let’s not forget about how Clinton gave million-dollar speeches because she was “dead broke” after they left the White House in 2000.
There are so many things people could use to attack Clinton. She works in the interest of corporations and the elitist class in America first, with middle-class Americans coming in a distant second.
The GOP won’t attack her on these issues, though. Republicans agree with her corporate, pro-war, anti-middle class policies. Clinton is basically a level-headed Republican.
They’d be hypocrites if they disagreed with her policies. And they can’t attack Clinton on her few progressive stances because those issues are extremely popular among voters in America.
Polls have shown that Americans are in favor of typically progressive issues such as raising the minimum wage, increasing Social Security and supporting gay marriage.
America is a progressive country because people see how well those policies work.
Our politicians, on the other hand, aren’t progressive. Democrats are slightly more progressive than Republicans, but our politicians are overall much more conservative than their constituents, and they have to be that way because of their donors.
Wall Street bankers and corporate owners don’t want to increase the minimum wage or give Americans income equality. They want to rig the political game to favor their interests, so they pay off Democrat and Republican politicians to do their bidding.
That’s why the Democrats don’t have anyone other than Clinton running for president in 2016. She took all the Democrats’ major donors because they know that she’ll set pro-establishment policies into place.
And even if Clinton does run a progressive campaign, she’ll be just like Barack Obama. She’ll rally people over the ideas of “hope” and “change” to get her elected. When she becomes president, she’ll immediately run closer to the center.
If Clinton wins, she will just be another pro-establishment president who’s on the right of the political spectrum, and America doesn’t want that.
Clinton’s emails aren’t a big deal. Her relationship with Wall Street bankers is the problem, and anyone who calls bankers that collapsed our economy “misunderstood” shouldn’t be our next president.
Cody Sibley is a 19-year-old mass communication freshman from Opelousas, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @CodySibley.