Hillary Clinton is a candidate for defeatism

Hillary Clinton is a candidate of, by and for defeatism, delusion and deceit, in both domestic and foreign policy.

Clinton emphatically says that Medicare for all “will never, ever come to pass” and that pursuing that goal would be dangerous — despite the fact that the vast majority of Democrats support a single-payer health care system.

Clinton describes the 2011 attack on Libya as “smart power at its best” — despite the fact that it’s a catastrophe enabling terrorist havens.

Clinton, feigning to admit her vote for the Iraq invasion was a “mistake,” says it was a “mistake … because of the way that it was done and how the Bush administration handled it” — a tactic of displacement and diversion.

Clinton has ruled out the long-term possibility of any reconciliation with Iran, or communication with the regime beyond the nuclear weapon issue — a formula for perpetual armed standoff.

I’m for a president who’s ready to shut down corporate offshore tax havens, raise the income cap on Social Security contributions, impose a tax on Wall Street speculation and avoid stupid wars, rebuild our middle class by rehabilitating our infrastructure, make public education through college tuition-free, expand Social Security and extend Medicare to cover all Americans.

This story was originally published February 18, 2016 at 4:53 PM with the headline "Hillary Clinton is a candidate for defeatism."