With All Due Respect, Secretary Reich, Progressives Will NOT…
Article #29: Politics
Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary under former President of the United States Bill Clinton’s Administration, penned a social media post about the increasing vitriol among Presidential Candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton supporters after the New York primary for the 2016 Democrat Presidential nomination:
What do we think, Mr. Secretary?
We think that you are a great man with an understanding of what’s going on in this country economically that most will never have.
We are huge fans of yours and use examples from you in paid entrepreneurial workshops and economic enlightenment seminars that we do around the country.
We truly believe that you love this country and the people in it and want nothing but the best for both.
However…
…We also think that you have to understand something about these individuals who are on Bernie Sanders’ side and are angry and feel we have to seriously do something about the Clinton Machine; a prime representation of all that is wrong with politics in America today.
The Anger Justification of Bernie Sanders Supporters:
Think about what it is about which they’re angry when it comes to the chain-reactions of all of those problems that were helped to come to come to fruition by Hillary Clinton. People are:
• Savings-less…
• Physically and mentally exhausted…
• Working MANDATORY overtime…
• Working multiple jobs, yet still have no money…
• Moving back in with their parents, which we believe has helped raise the bed bug infestation…
• Living with roommates just to be able to pay rent…
• Barely holding onto their jobs because the companies who donate to Hillary don’t care about the actual workers more than they do profits…
…and Progressives don’t believe that she is going to do anything except continue the working-class down this stressful, uphill road.
When Clinton helped create all of these problems, and then (before and during the Democratic Presidential primary)…
• Mastered crony capitalism…
• Had her political surrogates attack Bernie using skewed information and just outright lies…
• Had the corporate media (who has bought her with massive speaking fees and massive campaign contributions) mostly black out Bernie Sanders coverage, then made the little coverage they gave him be transparently and repetitively negative…