About Hillary Clinton

Sheila Newman #comment-171057">wrote:

... is there anyone else in America likely to win who is not a raging narcissist and paranoid warmonger? Is it indeed possible to be a multimillionaire and not psychopathic? ...

We must not forget that for all the grave flaws of America's democracy, including its presidential election system, at least three great people, of good intention and opposed to the interests of the corporate elites, were elected to the office of President since the middle of the 19th century – Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) and John F Kennedy (JFK). In 1968, JFK's younger brother Robert Kennedy (RFK or Bobby Kennedy) was suspiciously murdered just as he was about to win the Democratic Presidential primaries in 1968. Had both RFK and Jim Garrison, who was working to prosecute one of those who had conspired to murder JFK (as portrayed in Oliver Stone's JFK of 1991), thought to work together that murder could well have been prevented. Bobby Kennedy would then almost certainly have won the elections of 1968, and in doing so, have brought the bloody Vietnam war to an end five and as half years before it was eventually to end in May 1975.

These examples show that, for all the shortcomings of the American Presidential system and for all the perils faced by candidates not in the pockets of the corporate elites, it is still possible for a good candidate to win.

The only course of action that could possibly cause any good to come out of the American Presidential elections, not just for Americans, but for the rest of humanity, which also has a stake in the outcome, is to support any candidate who stands for principled domestic international policies. One such candidate is Bernie Sanders.

Given the advantages the Internet gives anybody with evidence and logic to back up his/her viewpoint, and the existence on that Internet of large independent anti-corporate, anti-war newsmedia, both inside America and overseas, it should not be precluded that a good candidate such as Bernie Sanders may well be elected president, whether as an endorsed Democrat or Republican, an Independent or a Green.

Even if Bernie Sanders were not to win, a large grassroots campaign in support of Sanders could well make it much harder for the winner to implement his/her plans to serve his/her corporate masters and extend the United States' global hegemony.