The Tragedy of Hillary Clinton (And Her Generation)

[arlington.mass]

No matter who wins the Democratic nomination, it is now utterly clear that the Clinton team disastrously misjudged the American electorate. This is not an accident. It derives from the Clintons' gradual evolution from idealists to hardened insiders, America's decline into crony capitalism, and the Democratic establishment's betrayal of its base, over the last forty years. In the most recent debate Hillary tried to pivot, and she might just pull it off, in image though not in reality.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-ferguson/the-tragedy-of-hillary-cl_b_9218908.html?

[Kelvin Mace]

1. Yes, she shares that trait with a number of people around here

I am kind of fed up with "pragmatists".

[AgingAmerican]

3. "Pragmatism" is their code word for "Right wing"

It's what they called the disastrously naive deals Obama made with the Republicans.

[Kelvin Mace]

4. Yes, I avoid candidates with bi-partisan fetishes

at least until the GOP starts fielding sane people again.

Anyone talking about "working with the other side" is delusional.

[AgingAmerican]

7. Sad, but true...

[bigwillq]

2. K and R (nt)

[enough]

5. A fine analysis of the Hilary's trajectory, but not of "her generation."

I am just about her age, and this story does not fit me or anybody my age I know.

[nationalize the fed]

6. The Fruits of Empire

...gradual evolution from idealists to hardened insiders, America's decline into crony capitalism, and the Democratic establishment's betrayal of its base, over the last forty years.

Boomers gift to the future. Just because you call a sellout a "hard choice" does not make it not a sellout. Both "sides" are guilty

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."-Karl Rove https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community

Here's how it looks to a New Zealander

"You've gone from being the most intelligent, literate, morally back-boned citizenry in the history of the world to the laziest, dumbest, most capitulating human trash that has ever existed"- Vinny Eastwood, New Zealand