Secretary Hillary Clinton has accused Senator Bernie Sanders of attempting to address the real problems of the American people. “Of course we needed to fix the primaries. Sanders was engaged in the unthinkable — actually addressing issues such as student loan debt, the need for health care justice, and addressing climate change. We have been vindicated by the release of the Paradise Papers .”
Clinton, like Trump, has been vindicated by the release of the latest trove of financial documents, revealing the lengths the world’s financial elite have to go to evade paying taxes and launder money. “The problems of the uber wealthy dwarf that of the poor in America and elsewhere. You have no idea how difficult it is to run a multi-national money-laundering scheme. I have deep sympathy for the Trump family and what they face in the Mueller investigation. Why would Bernie try to distract the corporate class with the penny-pinching troubles of the working poor? It is outrageous and we had every right to respond as we did.”
Senator Sanders, remarkably, seems to be standing by his proposition that the United States can and should be a country guided by economic fairness and the needs of the 99%. Clinton, Trump, and others were seen laughing at him at an exclusive party celebrating the release of the Paradise Papers. “Let this stand as a warning to future candidates who attempt to undermine our democracy by being honest, unbribable, and with true integrity and caring for the American People. Honoring the will of the voters is one luxury we cannot afford when we’re being hounded for the millions we’ve squirreled away in the Caymans or some other haven. Bernie, just go away. Please.”
Other leading democrats followed suit by shunning Sanders for attempting to make modest reforms to excesses in America reminiscent of the 1890s. “Universal healthcare? Free college at public schools? Reining in Wall STreet? People with those kinds of ideas cannot be allowed to receive votes, for the good of all that we, as a party, represent. You know, lobbyists, Saudi princes, and the like.”
