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In reply to the discussion: How Hillary will cruise to an easy 2016 victory and why that will upset some on the left. [View all]Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. The private debt burden will create a new kind of almost permanent indentured servitude. What was once considered the living standard of the lowest 15% will be the living standard of the lowest 50%. Memories of participatory democracy and grassroots campaigns will become distant folklore of the past. Not because of Hillary of course - This is what is going happen if any mainstream candidate of either party should win or the mainstream polices of either party continue on their current course. But it will be significantly more socially liberal with a few more token programs wrapped in a liberal veneer under Hillary or any other mainstream Democrat. I suppose with the current Republican Party dominated by a bunch of nutcases - it is certainly preferable to them running the façade of democracy.