People have been warning for months about why a coronation was a bad idea, that sh*t happens, revelations are made, the tide could turn and having more than one stong candidate would be important for a win against the Republicans.
Meteor Blades has this post up showing fast moving reaction to these revelations and that at least a couple of hundred US names are listed.
Tuesday Apr 05, 2016 · 12:03 PM CST
the Panama Papers
You may be thinking, why should we care about more rich person fail?
Jeremy Corbyn in the UK :
Could these revelations and the blowback have a major impact on the primary, in the general? You betcha!
Mathew Turner:
www.independent.co.uk/...
The Panama Papers could hand Bernie Sanders the keys to the White House
For some Americans, Hillary Clinton is the embodiment of a global elite which benefits from tax avoidance schemes. Bernie Sanders, her opponent, is its antithesis This in from the Independent
As this scandal looks intent on dragging on, it is now increasingly likely that undecided voters will swing towards the Sanders camp in the vital primaries coming up, including New York. In a general election, Republican favourite Donald Trump’s alleged historic tax dodging will leave him in hot water in comparison to Sanders' squeaky clean record. He is the only candidate who even speaks in terms of the 1 per cent vs the 99 per cent. Should he secure the Democratic nomination, early general election polls suggest Sanders would knock Trump out of the park.
But this more than a battle of candidates, it is a battle of ideas. Globalisation, heralded by the likes of Hillary Clinton, has enabled the richest in society to exploit the system while ordinary working people pick up the tab. This has been going on for decades; as a political family, the Clintons have done nothing about it. Hillary continues to describe her opponent’s policy platform as ‘pie in the sky’, yet corporations paying their fair share of taxes could easily fund many of Sanders’ proposals.
The longer this scandal this kept alive the more beneficial will be for Sanders. And if any more skeletons in the Clinton closet see the light, it will parachute Bernie Sanders into the White House.
www.independent.co.uk/...