{"id":9593,"date":"2016-02-09T06:46:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T11:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=9593"},"modified":"2016-02-09T07:18:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T12:18:31","slug":"hillary-clintons-record-is-not-the-record-of-a-liberal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/hillary-clintons-record-is-not-the-record-of-a-liberal\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton&#8217;s record is not the record of a liberal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9594\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9594\" style=\"width: 293px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Orwell.jpg\" alt=\"Orwell poster\" width=\"293\" height=\"425\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Orwell.jpg 293w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Orwell-155x225.jpg 155w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Orwell-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: unknown<\/figcaption><\/figure>HRC&#8217;s record makes her not a liberal. None of the Republican candidates have achieved what she colluded with her husband to do: remove millions from welfare and foodstamps without reducing poverty; spend billions building prisons; create the three-strike sentencing system that would send people to prison for many years even if their offenses were small; lock up millions of black and brown men and women. The inmates became an unpaid prison workforce for clever CEOs.<\/p>\n<p>And the prisons were taken over by private corporations that have demanded 80-98% occupancy rates. When occupancy drops, they extort money from the states they&#8217;re located in for breach of contract. <\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton has had the audacity to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars of payments from the private prison industry her support helped to create. She is not a liberal. She is also not a friend to the black or Latino communities. Liberal is a word <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2015\/10\/21\/is-hillary-clinton-a-liberal-increasingly-democrats-say-she-is\/\">HRC is using to get votes<\/a>, but it doesn&#8217;t describe her politics. I&#8217;m not sure what word does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HRC&#8217;s record makes her not a liberal. None of the Republican candidates have achieved what she colluded with her husband to do: remove millions from welfare and foodstamps without reducing poverty; spend billions building prisons; create the three-strike sentencing system that would send people to prison for many years even if their offenses were small; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/hillary-clintons-record-is-not-the-record-of-a-liberal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hillary Clinton&#8217;s record is not the record of a liberal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1082,563,1192],"tags":[2174,2283,2284],"class_list":["post-9593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-dei","category-justice","category-politics-2","tag-clinton","tag-liberal","tag-prisons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9597,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9593\/revisions\/9597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}