Latino group demands Hillary Clinton and DNC cut ties with private prison industry

[dreamnightwind]

156. We do understand it

and that's why we support Bernie.

I've never been a Hillary fan, but I would like to say this kind of issue, for me, is not personal, it's systemic. The campaign finance system is so thoroughly rotten and captured by interests like this that any candidate participating in it is forever in its debt, industry interests have captured our government, no exaggeration. Their interests are not ours.

Industry makes money through forced labor in private prisons and by extracting fossil fuels rather than working on green alternatives, while we get incarcerated or killed by the impending climate catastrophe. This kind of talk used to be slightly hair-on-fire (not really, but it appeared so), now it is too obviously the literal truth, and actually an understatement of the impacts of it all.

Bernie actually has a chance, a long-shot to be sure, but he has a chance of getting elected without being controlled by these interests. In my opinion it's a wonderful opportunity and we are in desperate circumstances. We can't go on with business as usual, it leads to massive profits for a very very few and hell to pay for the rest of us.