The Chinese stock market is plummeting so fast that authorities there keep shutting it down. North Korea set off a bomb in a nuclear test. Two of the Middle East’s great powers, Saudi Arabia and Iran, are eyeing each other menacingly. In the European Union, political extremists are on the rise, migrants are pouring in and Britain may drop out (three phenomena that are not unrelated).
And in the United States, the number of people filing unemployment claims is hovering near the lowest levels in four decades, the jobless rate may well fall below 5 percent for the first time since 2007, and whatever the noise on the presidential campaign trail, Congress recently passed bipartisan legislation to keep the government running comfortably into next year.
Maybe some people will notice how well we’re doing relative to everyone else. I do get tired of listening to how angry everyone is all the time.
If you shut off the internet and stopped watching the news, you would quickly discover that we live in perhaps the best time in history. Wars are at historic lows, life expectancy and quality of life improves by leaps and bound and Better Call Saul returns in a few weeks.
I think this is why people gravitate to apocalyptic lit and film. Life is depressingly easy for many people, evolutionarily speaking.
There’s actually something nostalgic about these cinematic apocalypses. The Road Warrior is basically a western, and Fury Road is basically a samurai movie. The point is that you need some space where the regular rules don’t apply, where adventure is possible. You can go back to some chaotic time in history, or you can imagine a more chaotic future. Because life is more exciting then.
Unfortunately, I think we’re currently drifting toward some pretty heavy chaos in the not too distant future. The climate/energy crisis has all kinds of tipping points that are rapidly approaching.
You know we have a record number of displaced people last year.
Yes.
I believe that post-apocalypse stuff is popular for a few reasons. What I think tops the list though is the fact that for most Western societies, we are multiple steps away from surviving in the same way that humans have evolved to survive. Most western people no longer need to plant things in the ground or watch over grazing animals while protecting that ground from other animals, people, and the environment.
Instead of proactively surviving ourselves, we wake up and typically do some type of non-survival work in an office, factory, building, etc, and receive credits. We then go to some building with artificial light and purchase food and non-food that is in abundance, sitting on a shelf. We go home, eat the food, and have, relatively speaking, lots of free time.
As a species that evolved to problem solve in the environment as omnivore generalists, we’re really good at figuring things out, yet most of us don’t do that in order to survive.
Throw in the fact that we’re constantly told that everything sucks, and post-apocalypse entertainment provides a few things.
That’s how desperate the conservative movement is these days: they’re left to claiming things which can be shown to be untrue (“Obamacare is a job-killing failure!!!), and blaming the President for every negative event in other countries.
A Christian in Poland got a hangnail?
THANKS, OBAMA. This is what happens when we have feckless, weak leadership. The United States must lead the war to protect fingernails!
But, but, but Obama. So things just can’t be good.
I will bring to your attention the complete absence of any mention of the public option….
I don’t think anything President Obama does would change how the Republicans think about him or how things are going in this country. He has gotten us back on our feet, made significant progress in health care and human rights, but he will always be the weak, helpless, black kid that sneaked into the Presidency illegally. Twice.
I’m glad he’s going after gun legislation and I hope he continues to be the strongest, most influential lame duck this country has ever seen.
Some things to notice.
7, As long as nations and the global business community pursue austerity policies ad infinitum, anger and extremism will build among the public in the countries being stolen from.
The dead weight of the Republicans (and conservatives internationally) and their incompetence on both economic and foreign policy cause anger at the spinning out of control of the foreign and economic events and the continuing impoverishment of ordinary people. People are anger for legitimate reasons; too often the penalties for saying the real reasons for the anger are too high and too contrary to social norms about political thought that they invent bogus shit to cover their anger at the real powerful. Tolerance is easier when the pie is big enough and noting poverty in the midst of plenty does not threaten major costs to your share of the plenty. And then there is the awakening that you were being played even then.
Awakening is abrupt and people awakened abruptly as many have been over the past decade and a half are grumpy not to be permitted to sleep. And more easily tempted by the promise of false tranquility.
I wish the Federal Reserve appreciated this…
According to the bureau of labor stats, about half of the decline in the labor participation rate is due to long term demographic trends that have nothing to do with economic policy, such as the retirement of the baby boomers.
There are baby boomers who would prefer not to be retired but have been shoved out by age discrimination.
And there are parents who would prefer to be with their kids who have to work because of low wages.
Both of those are the result of policies, maybe not government economic policies, but policies about hiring, work days, work hours, job flexibility and balancing work and family.
The unemployment rate is not like the weather. It is fairly well known how to put people to work effectively and provide support to families effectively. Business owners and managers, by and large, don’t want to do that.
I mean, labor, wages, policy, etc., are all complicated, but I’ll always go with the forest view rather than the tree view.
Low unemployment rate = higher wages = less short-term profits to be lent to Wall. St. criminals to push around and inflate bubbles.
I mean, if we’re going to have a low highest marginal tax rate and low capital gains rates, and free trade, why the hell would you want to then have low unemployment which drives up wages?
How to you think in 1928 that Hoover won in a landslide?
Too soon to tell if the Chinese cough will be contagious. (The Chinese government planners/managers have done a great job, but opting for rapid growth, they overlooked or minimized important factors that contribute to economic stability.)
Herbert Hoover, the Ronald Reagan of the 1920’s.
No — Coolidge was the RR of the 1920s. Had Hoover been willing and able to take on the national debt levels that Obama has, the economy wouldn’t have slumped into as Great a Depression. As Soc Sec, unemployment insurance, food stamps, secured bank deposits (all those “New Deal” safety net programs) didn’t exist, the depression would still have been experienced by ordinary people as horrible and FDR would likely have been elected anyway, but due to the Hoover national debt levels, it would have made “New Deal” legislation much more difficult to enact.
You set the bar pretty low here but what do you expect from the New York Times and the Democratic Establishment?
Real unemployment is near twice their official figure with AA youth unemployment over 50%. Cops are totally out of control killing more unarmed AA’s than during the Jim Crow era with lynching. We lead the world with the number of people in prison, thanks to you know who. College is unaffordable. Jobs are mostly part time in the service sector where it takes three of them to survive. Banks are larger and still engaging in risky speculation but with the law changed so next time we go under, we stay under. Income inequality continues to grow with billionaires buying elections or at least trying to.
Now we have the DNC with its Clinton Machine Chair doing its best to tilt the primary nomination Hillary’s way alienating maybe 30% of the Democratic base.
http://www.salon.com/2015/09/14/welcome_to_the_un_democratic_party_we_need_more_debates_for_everyone
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-wall-street_568ed8d6e4b0cad15e6415cd
You do the math. Are things getting better or worse? Are you happy with this?
I can see the rating trolls are out. What I say is true and you can’t make it go away.
Again, not interested in downrating you, but much of what you write is opinion. When you start speculating on the motivations and thoughts of Hillary and other Democratic Party leaders, those points are not true, because they’re not facts.
Nor is it a fact that, for example, “Real unemployment is near twice their official figure…” or “Cops are totally out of control killing more unarmed AA’s than during the Jim Crow era with lynching.” If you think that accurate reporting was done on extrajudicial murders of African-Americans during the Jim Crow era, I would encourage you to think again.
However, since BooMan’s original post is on the accomplishments of the Obama Administration, it’s worthwhile to consider a couple of your points.
Are you aware that the overall numbers of Americans who are incarcerated, both in total population and percentage of Americans, has dropped during the Obama Administration, the first time cumulative incarceration in local, State and Federal prisons has gone down since the Johnson Administration?
Is it still too high? Yes. Do we do a solid across-the-board job of rehabilitating prisoners? No. Has the situation improved under Obama’s Justice Department? Yes.
Similarly, yes, economic inequality has increased. But what initiatives started by the President have served that outcome? None that I can see. Among the major accomplishments of the President’s term have been the ending of the Bush tax cuts for the top marginal income rate and the Affordable Care Act, which holds a meaningful additional tax on those with higher incomes.
None of this means that we should not be fighting for more and better policies. The Affordable Care Act, for example, is an overly complicated, somewhat flawed law. But it is a major accomplishment which has improved the quality and reduced the rise in costs of the health care system in the United States. Dodd/Frank is an overly complicated, somewhat flawed law. But it is an improvement in the regulatory laws, and your claim that “…with the law changed…next time we go under, we stay under” is not a factual statement.
Thanks for considering these points.
“We lead the world with the number of people in prison, thanks to you know who” Well, I for one, am too dense to know who.
100% with you on the rest and maybe that as well, but I don’t know who you are talking about. You’re not blaming Obama for record incarcerations are you?
Bill Clinton is who. It’s okay because he apologized saying, “maybe we went too far.” It was just part of the DLC third way agenda to be like the Republicans. Obama did all he could to clean up the mess left by the Clintons.
This seems like a comprehensive response to your concerns on this subject:
https:/www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/criminal-justice-reform
Hillary believes our criminal justice system is out of balance. In her first major speech of the campaign, she said we have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America and called for an end to the “era of mass incarceration.”
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…As president, she will:
Work to strengthen bonds of trust between communities and police. Effective policing and constitutional policing go hand-in-hand–we can and must do both. Hillary will work to promote effective, accountable, constitutional policing, including:
Making new investments to support state-of-the-art law enforcement training programs at every level on issues such as implicit bias, use of force, de-escalation, community policing and problem solving, alternatives to incarceration, crisis intervention, and officer safety and wellness.
Strengthening the U.S. Department of Justice’s pattern or practice unit by increasing resources, working to secure subpoena power, and improving data collection for pattern or practice investigations.
Doubling funding for the U.S. Department of Justice “Collaborative Reform” program to provide technical assistance and training to agencies that undertake voluntary efforts toward transformational reform of their police departments. Across the country, there are police departments deploying creative and effective strategies that we can learn from and build on.
Supporting legislation to end racial profiling by federal, state, and local law enforcement officials.
Providing federal matching funds to make body cameras available to every police officer to increase transparency and accountability on both sides of the lens.
Promoting oversight and accountability in use of controlled equipment by limiting the transfer of military equipment by the federal government to local law enforcement, eliminating the one-year use requirement, and requiring transparency by agencies that purchase equipment using federal funds.
Collecting and reporting national data on policing to inform policing strategies and provide greater transparency and accountability, including robust state and local data on issues such as crime, officer involved shootings, and deaths in custody.
Creating national guidelines for use of force that recognize the need for officers to protect their safety and the safety of others, but emphasize use of force as a last resort and at the appropriate level. The federal government has an important role to play in standardizing best practices for the use of force.
Take action on mandatory minimum sentences. Excessive federal mandatory minimum sentences keep nonviolent drug offenders in prison for longer than is necessary or useful and have increased racial inequality in our criminal justice system. Hillary will reform mandatory minimum sentences, including:
Reducing mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenses by cutting them in half.
Applying Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 retroactively to allow current nonviolent prisoners to seek fairer sentences.
Eliminating the sentencing disparity for crack and powder cocaine so that equal amounts of crack and powder cocaine carry equal sentences and applying this change retroactively.
Reforming the “strike” system to focus on violent crime by narrowing the category of prior offenses that count as strikes to exclude nonviolent drug offenses, and reducing the mandatory penalty for second- and third-strike offenses.
Granting additional discretion to judges in applying mandatory minimum sentences by expanding the “safety valve” to a larger set of cases.
Focus federal enforcement resources on violent crime, not simple marijuana possession. Marijuana arrests, including for simple possession, account for a huge number of drug arrests. Further, significant racial disparities exist in marijuana enforcement, with black men significantly more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than their white counterparts, even though usage rates are similar.
Hillary believes we need an approach to marijuana that includes:
Allowing states that have enacted marijuana laws to act as laboratories of democracy, as long as they adhere to certain federal priorities such as not selling to minors, preventing intoxicated driving, and keeping organized crime out of the industry.
Rescheduling marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule II substance. Hillary supports medical marijuana and would reschedule marijuana to advance research into its health benefits.
Prioritize treatment and rehabilitation–rather than incarceration–for low-level, nonviolent drug offenders. Over half of prison and jail inmates suffer from a mental health problem, and up to 65 percent of the correctional population meets the medical criteria for a substance use disorder. Hillary will ensure adequate training for law enforcement for crisis intervention and referral to treatment, as appropriate, for low-level, nonviolent drug offenders with mental health or addiction problems. She will also direct the attorney general to issue guidance to federal prosecutors on seeking treatment over incarceration for low-level, nonviolent drug crimes.
Read more on Hillary’s plan to tackle America’s epidemic of addiction.
End the privatization of prisons. Hillary believes we should move away from contracting out this core responsibility of the federal government to private corporations, and from creating private industry incentives that may contribute–or have the appearance of contributing–to over-incarceration. The campaign does not accept contributions from federally registered lobbyists or PACs for private prison companies, and will donate any such direct contributions to charity.
Promote successful re-entry by formerly incarcerated individuals. This year, the number of people released from state or federal prison will reach approximately 600,000. For those given a second chance, and for the health and safety of the communities to which those individuals return, the reentry pathway must not be littered with barriers, but rather paved with a fair opportunity for success.
Clinton will work to remove barriers and create pathways to employment, housing, health care, education, and civic participation, including:
Taking executive action to “ban the box” for federal employers and contractors, so that applicants have an opportunity to demonstrate their qualifications before being asked about their criminal records.
Supporting legislation to restore voting rights to individuals who have served their sentences.
All of this has been buried by her motherfucking emails and horse race political coverage, but Hillary’s to the left of the Obama Administration here.
I’m sorry; did I disturb your weekend giving my political opinion on a progressive blog? I can’t seem to read either. “Maybe some people will notice how well we’re doing relative to everyone else. I do get tired of listening to how angry everyone is all the time.” Silly me, I took this to mean while everyone else on the planet is doing so badly, why on earth is there in our country a populist movement on both sides of the aisle disgusted with their respective establishments? What is the matter with these people, why are they so angry all the time? I can understand that Republicans are subjected to a rightwing outrage machine 24/7 but why should they be angry, after all, they control most of the state houses complete with a Republican House (locked in with gerrymandering) and a Republican Senate? It’s even more of a mystery on the Democratic side. We have a well oiled big money funded Clinton Machine ready to take over where Obama left off. We should not worry about the House and Senate because the country is turning brown so we’ll get it back, eventually. What could possibly go wrong?
Oh, I forgot again, that is all just opinion. What we need are facts, real facts that are undisputed. Thank you for bringing those facts to the table. I must be lazy for not going to visit http://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues for the facts I might need to form a correct opinion, you know, that well informed electorate idea. There I go with that opinion thing again, sorry. If I’m going to make a voting decision I, personally anyway, need to form an opinion. I do wonder if anyone else does. Might they even create blogs to exchange those opinions?
At my age I find sleep is a wonderful thing, especially political sleep. I learned this from my millennial kids who were very active Obama 2008 campaign workers. After the election with Obama installing his DLC administration, they went back to political sleep. They watched no television, read nor watched any corporate media on line, nothing. They just went on with their lives without the aggravation. When I would ask them about this or that, they had no clue. I admired them for that thinking I should try to do the same.
Then along came Bernie! Now was the time to wake up from that restful political sleep. Finally there was something to get excited about, something to vote for. After Hillary put Bill on the campaign trail and Trump brought up Bill Clinton’s sex scandals I saw something new, something I had missed during the Republican witch hunts trying to throw Bill out of office so many years ago. That was the tweet from Juniata Broaddrick., “…I am now 73….it never goes away.” For the first time I watched the interview where after resisting for a long time, Juniata decided to tell her story. For better or worse, I believed her.
I wondered if I was making too much of this so I told my millennial daughter what I had found so as to gage the importance of this revelation. Her answer was: “It doesn’t matter. I can’t stand Hillary anyway; there is really no difference between Bill and Hillary, intellectually speaking. I wouldn’t trust either of them with running the country. Trump is worse than Hillary but not by much. If Bernie loses, I’m leaving the country.” Her grandparents are from Austria and we still have extended family there. Education is free with chances of upward mobility much better there than here without some major reforms. Unless we’re willing to at least try fix this mess, my daughter’s sad message is a loss of confidence in our political system. When people feel this way, they don’t bother to vote. Is this opinion or fact? You take the chance.
But back to the facts, above all we need facts. Bernie Sanders, not even a Democrat, came out of nowhere running as a Democratic Socialist to directly challenge the corporatist Clinton Machine with a people funded grass roots movement even larger than Obama had at this same point in the election cycle. Bernie has captured a significant portion of the Obama coalition.
Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, a Hillary 2008 campaign co-chair managed to become DNC Chair. In 2008 she watched in horror as an unknown Obama during 26 debates overcame his name recognition gap with Hillary running on an undefined message of hope and change. Confronted with Bernie’s message, Hillary’s DNC Chair then made a new rule forbidding participation in any non DNC sanctioned debates while limiting the DNC debates to 6, at times and dates to guarantee the least possible viewers. Then we find out this is just the tip of the ice berg with the Clinton Machine in control of the monopoly voter database vendor with DWS using this connection to attempt to ratfuck Bernie creating even further alienation of a large portion of the Democratic base. Look it up.
Facts are great, as long as they’re unchallenged Hillary facts, the reason for so few DNC debates. But are these Hillary facts really facts or are they what the Clinton Machine told her she needed to say counter Bernie? Would she suddenly decide that TPP now meets her standards, big banks are just fine the way they are, a no fly zone in Syria against the Russians is the right thing to do, American ground troops to defeat ISIS are a good idea after all and what’s wrong with private prisons since they make good political contributions? Does Hillary have any chance whatsoever to lead a political revolution to do even any of the half measures on that Hillary fact list? It’s just my opinion but I don’t think so.
You can cling to your Hillary facts to nominate Hillary, but think about this moment as you watch the inauguration of President Trump with a Republican House and Senate.
But Obama didn’t use the bully pulpit or something so none of that matters Booman.
It’s mostly about record income inequality and the shrinking middle class. Americans see what’s going on with the economy and are not happy about their relative status
Having a crappy job is better than having no job, but it doesn’t necessary make you happy that your working a near minimum wage service job.
Having crappy health insurance is better than having no health insurance, but again not necessary a reason to be overjoyed about your prospects if you have to struggle to meet a high deductible for any significant medical problem.
I also I think that our obviously corrupt political process also tends to make people pessimistic. Their are plenty of ways to improve the average Americans life, but they end up being put off the table by a political process that caters primarily to wealthy.
HuffPo: Don’t Expect Food Stamps If You’re Unemployed And Childless
IBTimes – administration immigrant raids
That should be helpful with the Latino vote in 2016.
Chinese economic issues and a strong dollar will hurt us, but no doubt the US came through the recession better tan the other major powers. Thats not to say Obama couldnt have done better, but better for us to hav Obama at the helm than the other major leaders.
The FED printing press was a major difference from that of many countries that collapsed.
Creating the next bubble because not picking winners and loser (like infrastructure and cutting the military) caused sitting on a lot of cash that just got put into end-of-the-year stock repurchases that will go to the CEO’s bottom line.
Metrics only matter to realists. Not that there isn’t a psychological component to economic ups and downs, but in the long run, the House always wins.
Until someone burns down the House.
The FED did its job. Congress refused to do its job, even enforcing austerity, causing the FED to go overboard in a vain attempt to push on a wet string. I can’t blame Yellen. I blame the Tan Man.
It was Bernanke that pushed the FED pedal to the metal.
Bernake deserves scorn for the Fed behavior pre-08.
And significant credit for Fed behavior after it hit.
An optimistic story of the human experience can be told: a historian of the Great Depression applied the lessons learned and all benefited as a result.
If only a similar story could be told of Congress
The existence of all the “New Deal” social economic safety nets (I include Medicare/Medicaid and SNAP as “New Deal” programs) make comparisons to the “lessons learned” from the Great Depression for the Great Recession weak. The major difference between Hoovernomics and Obamanomics was the amount of debt incurred. Until WWII FDR couldn’t get approval for enough debt to fully kick start the economy at the points that his team considered the most critical. They most definitely didn’t and didn’t intend to throw gobs of money at the banksters. Let’s also not overlook the fact that we’ve been on a war and deficit funding footing since 2003 — is that a Great Depression or WWII lesson?
Yes, you are right, but Yellen continued Bernanke’s lead.
Nice try, Booman. Today’s Frog Pond verdict is in: perspective and optimism are for suckers. The President has racked up the most and best liberal accomplishments since Johnson, while avoiding the big failure of a major ground war that Johnson led us into. Thumbs down, says the Pond.
Here’s something to tide us all over:
I choose empowerment. I choose to see the sand left in the hourglass.
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Median Family Income, 1999
57,843
Median family Income
53, 654
So, yea, maybe now you can understand why people are pissed off.
Because people make less money than they did 17 years ago.
Your comment says everything about some liberal elites.
https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MEHOINUSA672N
“And in the United States, the number of people filing unemployment claims is hovering near the lowest levels in four decades,” You have to be recently fired to file an unemployment claim. The problem is not recent layoffs; the problem is long term job loss to China and India. Instead of addressing the real problem, neoliberal Obama just cooks the books with “those people don’t really want jobs”. Why did young people who were so enthusiastic for Obama in 2008 become disenchanted? Maybe they’re sick of living in their old childhood bedroom instead having jobs and starting families. Just an example, when I was my oldest grandson’s age (25), I was a college graduate, a responsible government engineer (GS-12), I’d been married four years, had a child and was on the verge of moving from an apartment to buying a house, interest rates and down payment being the primary stumbling blocks. He, in contrast, is living in a spare room in his mother’s house, playing video games all day and hiding from the bill collectors wanting payment on six figure college loan debt. THAT’S why people listen to a blowhard like Trump and give the finger to your “wonderful Obama economy”. I, myself am doing OK with SS, CSRS pension and a decent Rollover IRA built during the robust stock market of the 1990’s. I know many seniors, lots of them good engineers, who are in far more desperate straits. And I feel pity and rage for single women and widows living in apartments with only SS, no pension, no IRA, and grasping landlords raising rents at a double digit pace because “there is no inflation”. Seniors all over are dropping their supplemental insurance because it’s either insurance or food or insurance or rent. I thank whatever powers that may exist that my wife pushed me to apply to the postal service when I was unemployed, else I would not have the pension or the health care benefits that Congress including many Blue Dogs want to take away from me. I belong to NARFE, http://www.narfe.org, and consider the dues well worth it to get detailed reports on what Congress and the Senate are attempting to do to us by individual voting record. I’ll add kudos on that to Tammy Duckworth and Jan Schakowsky, two Illinois Representatives that have voted to protect us down the line, although I was surprised that Tammy voted to take due process away from VA employees (Jan didn’t).
I follow the advice of Samuel Gompers to vote for your friends and against your enemies not on a Party line basis.
Vote for the politician you think is best. If that politician isn’t on the ballot, vote for the politician they’d vote for.
In a game of tug of war, sometimes you pull as hard as you can, and sometimes you just hold steady while the other side pulls as hard as they can. Tug of war, like politics, isn’t about being as extreme as possible for the duration, but recognizing when it is advantageous to hold, and when its advantageous to put everything in.
If you acknowledge political reality, the Republican party owns the House, the Senate, most states, and arguably the Supreme Court. Expecting Obama or any politician to be able to personally undo all of that is just not reasonable. And say what you will about Obama and the military, but the US is an Empire, capital E. Expecting Obama to unilaterally stop playing elected Emperor is naive, and I fucking loathe Empire and consider ALL drone strikes to be drone terrorism, and call it exactly that, even here.
Perhaps it’s because I’m somewhat young at 35, but I’m more inclined to prevent things from getting worse while making piecemeal improvements to things now, because as much as I’m a radical leftist, I’m more inclined to invite people to my side, rather than telling everyone else they’re a monumental, anachronistic idiot for disagreeing with my personal politics.
Is Hillary Clinton on my top ten list of candidates for Democratic nominee and President? No. Will I go and vote for her. Of fucking course I will. I’m relatively young and not suicidal, afterall.
Will HRC be a terrible President, ushering in a worse-than-Trump fascist in 2020? I highly doubt it. She’s a technocrat, and while I don’t expect her to move to the left very much…she doesn’t have to. All she has to do is not fuck everything up terribly, and compared to every single Republican nominee, I trust her the most to not fuck things up terribly. The electorate is moving left, and if the GOP nominates Trump, I expect it to move even more left.
Give me a House, Senate, USSC, White House, and 50 state governments of Bernie Sanders, and finally, the US can move in the right direction, which is to say, to the left.
But right now, holding what we have and preventing shit from moving to the right is important enough that I’m not going to join the right-wing fascists in making up words to dehumanize Hillary Clinton.
When I see someone using the term Hildabeast, I immediately know that they are either a fascist, or a left-winger who is likely to my far right and unable to appreciate the long-game that is human politics.