RM,
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I remember when Hillary was ahead of  Obama by 37 points in Black community.  Even the paper I was writing for (The Los Angeles Sentinel) was supporting her.  I was the only one supporting Obama.  I told two journalists that Obama was not only going to win the nomination, but he was going to be the next President of the United States. They fell out laughing and told me I was naive. So I bet them both - a hundred dollars each.  When Obama won the nomination I told 'em to let it ride.  Then when he won the Presidency, I had two things to celebrate - plus, the last laugh.  

RM, Bernie Sanders has got it exactly right:
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RACISM AND THE CORPORATE-REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE

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We are now knee-deep in a class war. The 1%ers don't care any more about White lives than they do Black lives. Clear evidence of that is they're currently clamoring to go to war instead of seeking a negotiated peace in Iran - and these are people like Dick Cheney who got FIVE (count 'em - FIVE) deferments to avoid having to place his life on the line during the Vietnam War.  Thus, the 1%ers are more interested in the profits in war than they are American lives - Black or White.  We saw an example of that when Bush and Cheney were so anxious to rush American troops into Iraq that they sent them to war without the necessary body armor to protect their lives.  
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Now, they're using race as a weapon of their class war in order to maintain power in spite of their toxic agenda a rapidly changing demographic. They're using the media to keep a handful of the most vicious racists, and the most horrendous racist atrocities, on the front burner to give the impression that racial hatred is running rampant all across the country. That keeps the American working class angry, frustrated, and divided, and if we don't wake up to that fact we're all doomed.

I've received a lot of flak from Hillary Clinton supporters over pointing out that she worked for Republican, Barry Goldwater, and at wellesley College she was the president of the "Young Republicans."  Hillary supporters went berserk over my bringing that out.  But I've long since recognized that people generally attack a position not so much because they think they're right, but because the facts, or a given truth being revealed, challenges their preferred view of reality.  But that's what writing is about, isn't it - challenging comfortable assumptions. 
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All of the arguments put forward in opposition to my position are either weak, invalid, or based on gross and unwarranted assumptions. For example, the argument that when Hillary Clinton was campaigning for Barry Goldwater at 17, or when she was in college and became the president of the "Young Republicans," she was too young to have developed a fundamental political philosophy.  What evidence do they have of that?  When I was 14 I held the very same political philosophy - and attitudes - that I have today. 
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So the argument that Hillary's tender age at the time she was engaging in these activities should indeed be taken into account, but contrary to the position of my critics, her age should be argued to bolster the other side of the equation. It should be used as an indicator of her fundamental predisposition. Politics is like religion. As we age we may modify and fine tune our beliefs, but most people take their fundamental belief system to the grave.
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And the argument that Hillary's mentor, Saul Alinsky, was a liberal is also meaningless.  If Hillary's motive for spinning on a dime was a cynical decision based on ambition and a recognition of which way the wind was blowing, the very first thing she would want to do would be to start building her new liberal credentials, and what better way to do that than to establish an association with someone like Saul Alinsky?  In addition, he would be invaluable in helping her to understand the progressive mindset and how to speak the language of a liberal. And further, everything she's done since could have been in pursuit of building her liberal credentials. And just because Alinsky was her political mentor doesn't necessarily mean that she embraced his political philosophy.  Perhaps what she wanted most from him was his strategic thinking, i.g., "True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits, and infiltrate the system from within."  That could be exactly what she's doing.
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Now, I'm not saying that everything I've said above represent the facts, but they are issues that should be pondered, because efficient thought doesn't elevate ANYTHING above question. In fact, to think, IS to question. So if you're not questioning, and you tend to take certain issues for granted, you're not a thinker; you're a feeler - and one of the biggest problems that we have in this country today is we have far too many feelers, and far too few thinkers.
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And by the way, if Hillary Clinton is chosen as the Democratic nominee for president, I will support her enthusiastically.  But again, I don't completely trust her, and I've explained why.

I fully agree, Sync.

RACISM AND THE CORPORATE-REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE
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We are now knee-deep in a class war. The 1%ers don't care any more about White lives than they do Black lives. Clear evidence of that is the fact that they're currently clamoring to go to war instead of seeking a negotiated peace in Iran - and these are people like Dick Cheney who got FIVE (count 'em - FIVE) deferments to avoid having to place his own life on the line during the Vietnam War.  Thus, the 1%ers are more interested in the profits in war than they are American lives - Black or White.  We saw an example of that when Bush and Cheney were so anxious to rush American troops into Iraq that they sent them to war without the necessary body armor to protect their lives.  
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Now, they're using race as a weapon of their class war.  They're using race, and other forms of bigotry, to maintain power in spite of their toxic agenda and a rapidly changing demographic. They're using the media to keep a handful of the most vicious racists, and the most horrendous racist atrocities, on the front burner to give the impression that racial hatred is running rampant all across the country. That keeps the American working class angry, frustrated, and divided, and if we don't wake up to that fact we're all doomed.

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