Vote for Hillary? Can't Get Fooled Again

[stupidicus]

35. of course "we" can

the strings from the puppeteers remain invisible to the politically unsophisticated, ignorant, and those firmly in the grip of the fear of modern rightwingnuttery.

I've argued since the rise of the Pea Partiers, that the escalation in rightwinger madness they represent wasn't happenstance, but rather a calculated effort to move the already well off center ideological dividing line in DC farther to the right by way of very energetic exploitation of that fear. That's why we got chained cpi proposals, etc, because that's still better than the privatization scheme Bush and her husband wanted -- that Lewinsky saved "us" from in his case. HC can and will benefit from it as the latest "good cop", despite the fact that as you can see around here even, many are starting to see how the game has been played, and are starting to reject it. Hopefully not enough to keep a better rep for the dem party and its values that have been drifting rightwards since her husband took the pres helm, from wresting it from her.

Hindsight is no replacement for the foresight we longtime critics of the "third way" coppers have long exhibited and shared, but it's far better than the blindness that the ignorant and fearful still cling to.