I’ve written diary, after diary, defending Hillary Clinton here and trying to find common ground with her and Bernie Sanders. And I’ve written articles criticizing Bernie and his campaign. I was about to do that about the oil industry issue and defending Hillary Clinton yesterday; but after today you won’t see another defense from me about Hillary again.
Why? There’s a article on the front page that says “Dear Sanders Supporters: You just permanently lost the moral high ground.”
No. Not even close. Sorry. You don’t get to be judge, jury, and executioner on Sander’s Moral High Ground. You don’t get to say someone has lost his trustworthiness because he backed up something a protester accused Hillary of doing. Remember? the one she basically screamed at? Remember? The one that had nothing to do with Bernie?
No amount of campaign surrogates; right-wing newspaper articles; recommended list diaries; partizan economists; or TV talking heads; would ever be enough to make him lose his moral footing.
Because Morality isn’t defined by what people say; or by shifting goalposts that fit into your own preconceived comfortable positions. It’s a universal truth. People can’t change it. No matter what they say or do; and the more and more you cry about it; the more and more fake you look. If people really though Bernie had lost the moral high ground they wouldn’t need you or a million different opinion pieces telling them about it. They’d know it for themselves.
Bernie started from literally nothing. He built a campaign that is becoming very dangerous for Clinton. He did it by speaking to the needs of the common people. Not the needs of Wall Street. Or the needs of Oil companies. What Greenpeace is saying is illustrated by the fact that Hillary couldn’t just flat out say “No” she didn't support Fracking. Meanwhile Oklahoma has increasingly larger and larger earthquakes caused by Fracking; so much that the U.S. Geological Survey are tracking them for the first time in history.
So why are people bothered by donations made by Oil Lobbyists to Hillary. Because they are scared and concerned. 7.1 Million people live near these areas. The Geological Survey feel that a earthquake as large as a 7.0 is just as likely to occur in Oklahoma than say California in the near future. A 7.0 is the kind of earthquake that not only destroys things; it kills people.
Sanders strong opposition to Fracking is one of the reason he won Oklahoma instead of Clinton.
And let there be no two ways about it; Fracking is extremely dangerous and a risk to our national security. If Hillary wants the people who face this danger to feel better about oil lobby contributions to her campaigns she should denounce it as such.