Apparently HRC is about to roll out Bill in NH to try to close the deal, as Bernie Sanders condemns Trump’s calling Bill’s sexual perpetrations fair game.
That is now, this was then:
Bill Clinton’s Deal with the Wall Street Devil aided and abetted the Reagan counter-revolution and destroyed the Party of FDR. To win at any cost, including abandoning the labor movement and the black underclass, to gain power by any means, including collaborating with Capital in the massive de-industrialization of the United States through NAFTA and other trade policies, were the overriding principles of the Democratic Leadership Council. Power, pure naked power, the absolute power that corrupts absolutely, became the raison d’etre of the Clintons and their Neoliberal fellow-travelers. The present Battle for the Soul of the Democratic Party is a fight between an energized progressive movement and the soulless technocrats who led the Middle Class off the Cliff of Neoliberal Market Fundamentalism.
Rahm Emanuel and Debbie Wasserman Shultz are the apotheosis of the Neoliberal Technocrats: cynical manipulators of process who forsake principle. Out of touch with the People and their General Welfare, these operatives simply excel in the job descriptions and branding messages they send to each other while 1-in-4 American children live in poverty. They fail miserably when it comes to serving the needs of the People.
Slick Willy, ironically the First Black President, turned the entire United States into Arkansas by throwing blacks under the bus, deregulating Wall Street, stupefying Labor, and triangulating his way to a society bereft of any real civic or political engagement. Neoliberalism wants everyone to own their own “brand”, but dog-eat-dog privatization makes branding exactly what it is: a deep burn in the flesh of the People that says: I OWN YOU. It’s Slavery by other methods, let’s face it.
And most intelligent people I know are fed up and say “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH”.
We’re tired of being ripped off by a morally and intellectually bankrupt “elite” that manipulate markets to push money into their own pockets. They buy the lawmakers then write the laws that enable them to loot the Treasury. They manufacture wars to sell their missiles and bombers---their bellicose puppets in government perpetuate the fossil fuel energy paradigm that poisons the planet.
Then they will jeer at you and say that you left behind tons of garbage after your climate march.
Who has the genuine moral authority to lead this nation?
Who?