In the mass media's over exuberance to defend Hillary Clinton through the daily onslaught to destroy the Republican House committee investigating Benghazi---a key point is lost. It is not about the lunacy of out of control political stand offs, or partisan witch hunts. Clearly, and the average person can deduce this for what it is, it is all partisan. It may or may not be valid. We are not morons and we understand the partisan hatred that fills our halls of governance.
What the public is weary of is the media attempting to force a flawed candidate on the voting mass. We can make up our own minds about Hillary Clinton. It is not so much that she is under investigation by this House Committee as it is about whether or not she respected the stature of the Office of Secretary of State. We question her swag in violating the high ethical standards to such a degree as to compromise national security. As she acerbically stated on her snapchat use, "those messages disappear all by themselves." This isn't at all funny.
Her supporters crow the argument, which we hear a lot of: ' well the Republicans did it, so why is it wrong for her?' This argument is a moral fallacy, and it allows the political class to lower the bar to the lowest point it can go, and keep it there. I am surprised that is even a defense to her actions.
I urge Democratic voters to vindicate democracy by saying loud and clear: We expect more from our Democratic leaders. It is not acceptable when Sec. Clinton abuses the Office of Secretary of State, and her supporters justify her behavior in defense, by intimating, well Colin Powell did it. This doesn't make it right. We want to raise the bar. The electorate has had enough of Washington DC shenanigans.
The Mass Media Lawyered Defense of Hillary Clinton
This daily barrage of articles is demeaning to the public intelligence. The role of mass media has become a manipulative steamrolling force against the democratic principles of our elective system. The media industrial complex is compromised as the vaulted fourth estate in our society: it is a mockery of the founders of a free press in this nation. Go hide yourselves, those of you that put your economic agenda before democracy. You are all guilty.
This is the key point, please take note, mass media: I issue this challenge to mass media talking points. Their whole money-hearted defense of Clinton doesn't make what she did right. Nothing makes what she did right. She stated she was sorry for using a home brew server, only after months of being antagonized to do so even by her own staff. I reiterate, nothing makes what she did right. No amount of media manipulation can change the realities before us. Mea culpa yes, and if her party had any integrity left, she would bow to it, and kiss her candidacy good bye.
The second key point is this nation's need to move forward. Hillary Clinton lacks the leadership to take us where we need to go. No amount of manipulating by the ever massive media industrial complex, because that's what you all look like from where I'm sitting--will make her what she is clearly not.
We need spirited debate on the issues facing this nation, and a spirited leader is needed. We need to end Native American and African Americans dying at the hands of police, this is a hurt. This is an issue right on the doorstep of the Democratic party, with racial minorities in one wing, and the powerful police unions in the other.
We need the political class to hear we are suffering out here without a realistic minimum wage increase. We need to address the moral issues of climate change, and the moral sin of wealth inequality that we have handed to at least two generations of American youth. These are just a few of the issues we need to address.
Raising the Bar to Respect Public Office: The Electorate Must Take on the Media Industrial Complex
The Third and Final Point: We demand the bar be raised. The silence of the Democratic political party on this entire summer's email debacle is stunning. Again, it is not so much what was found, it is that she went beyond her authority to compromise national security, to co mingle her private foundation objectives with her office, that she signed off on staffers to serve both her and former President Clinton's private foundation work, including garnering large speaker fees on behalf of foreign dictators, and failing to observe a line and respect for this office. If we don't respect these public offices, why are we even running as a party? Your voters can just stay home?
These people should demand Clinton exit stage left or they themselves resign en masse from their posts and political positions. A new and invigorated party is needed. Out with the old and in with the new. We have politicians in DC that will have to be scraped off their chairs, they are literally encrusted political decay. This would be funny were it not so sad, and so true.
We cannot allow what has been going on to continue. It took an Independent Democratic Socialist to drop his calling card on this supposed party of the people. Had he not done that, the struggling average citizen would be SOL and going down the stream without a paddle. The only people the Democrat political class love are their Wall Street donors. We can thank Bernie Sanders for caring about those that cannot afford lobbyists, those that are working low paying jobs to feed their families.
Where have all of you been, I ask? Where is this party in this rancor, to drive out a divider? It is incumbent on the political class to get this party divider out, and bring about a means of unification. Is this party capable of that? Why can't this discussion be out in the open? Do you all have something to hide? What is with Biden's secrecy and calculation? Why can't you all do this in the sunshine, get sunny ways like Canada? Speak for yourselves? Is that possible?
The ultimate arbiter on raising the bar in DC and in the election is: the voter. We are sick of what appears to be the Democrats barreling toward rigged elections, and abuse of the system to achieve a desired end--the capitulation of its own principles after having been ginned up on Wall Street, for some, it has been most if not throughout your entire careers in DC.
Change has to happen. The people demand it.
