For all of those who fell by the wayside on their ladder to success and everyone who's fallen on the sword for them; for all the things they've managed, hook or crook, to cover up --the smoking guns, the many! times they, s/he took the 5th; for all the empty gestures and grandstanding , beginning with Nat'l Health Care when s/he, we all/everybody knew it had no chance. For his "Neo-Liberal" rhetoric, smugly designed so we'd look for a healer--and we did. He was the father of fake news and the best "Friends of Bill" on his big donors list were/are the grandest of the Mega-Media. It seems unbelievable that *I/we voted for him with so little information about his lifetime, *hardline southern conservative background-- and unfortunate that years later, this remains a top "democratic" secret.
For all the civil/workers' rights abused, the unlawful corporate liberties and violations he promoted, wrote into law and subjected us all to; for all the "Now you see it, Now you don't" duplicity, rhetoric and spin: when he said "I'm a *'Progressive' --a Uniter Not a Divider" how could we have guessed, that he had in mind the hostile takeover and conversion of the hopes and dreams of the populace into doctrinaire conservatism. And the protests, the pre-emptive wars, his endorsement of bill after bill that undermined and hurt the middle class; these historic landmarks would not make the news in his new *consolidated media. For the disorienting and systematic collapse of our 2-party system that set the table for today's right-wing tyranny that supresses public participation-- the operative spin (psy-op) was "Unification." But *WHO was unified?? It was/is Them--the "two" parties vs. Us (the people).
It was a bad day for democracy when aggressive fiscal conservatives merged under Clinton's auspices (DLC) and institutionalized Neo-Con pay-offs without restraint. It was a *democrat that blazed the right-wing frontier; Republicans- always reactionary were never "NEO" anything. A Republican president could never have moved the radical right wing agenda so far --Democratic opposition would have been too strong. But in the absence of republican opposition (how could there be republican opposition when he was delivering/pre-empting their own pet projects?) our "democratic" president blazed the trail, trashing social safety nets and any/all protection the public had from corporate abuse. He honored the biggest and most demanding corporate wish-lists--deregulating, abolishing, granting critical chemical, medical, ethical deregulations and institutionalized white-collar anarchy across the board. The stringent right-wing agenda had been set-- Bush??-- had little to do but simply follow his predecessor, *"democrat's" footsteps. Without Clinton the insidious "democrat" who never met a principle, contract, covenant--nor any allegiance or fidelity he would not betray , the Bush outrages would have been impossible.
Our *Free Press--a democracy's only real insurance against tyranny, was done when Clinton signed the bill in 1996 that deregulated long time laws and handed over the then diversified media into the hands of the very few, most powerful interests in America. That would be G.E., AT&T, Disney and 2 or 3 others. Together THEY write/rewrite/select invent the news they want America to hear. That the Mega-Media owe him--*Big! *HAS made a mega difference--that he signed against our free press; the fundamental trust without which a democracy cannot function, was/is the worst blow a democracy can suffer. While he was engineering NAFTA (globalizing poverty) the historical kick in the butt for all America and the world, and especially the middle/working class--his friends in the now consolidated *Elite Mega-Media just stepped up the Monica drumbeat to drown out--*REAL! history in the making. I'm a democrat but, fair's fair--George's nasty laundry's all out there while the Neo-"Liberal's" crafty work that spread poverty, disease, economic ruin and millions of *deaths world-wide, together with all the wild domestic and overseas protests it spawned--went largely unreported.
For all the propaganda forums funded by his corporate treasure chest; the intimidating cyber goon-squads that dominate and fan out on the web censoring attempts that threaten to expose the high-rolling, record fund-raiser of our times --maybe, all times. I've had 50, maybe more posts disappear almost immediately on the big Perspectives "Liberal" Forum alone. Human/civil rights/ the people--can't be only words to us, our system/our destiny, our collective legacy and the privileges traditionally afforded us as a freedom-loving people are at stake. As an American used to life in a democracy, today's corporate tyranny is getting rough. Can we afford another Clinton in the white house?
What "Lesser???" Evils!