If 2016 is Clinton vs Bush [View all]

[DonCoquixote]

Granted, there a a thousand things that can happen, especially in an age where Billionaires can spend all the gold they want, and blow an Iron wind into anyone's sails. However, let's take a look at both of these two. For all the talk of how they are of opposite sides, they come from the same cloth; the center-right that feels obligated to protect the rich. Both of them have a strong contempt for their bases, because the radicals and reactionaries know that the Politics they care about is really just a secondary by-product of supporting the rich. Neither of them like to criticize the rich; but it is not fear as much as the fact they really do not disgree with the rich. Outsourcing? Both Jeb and Hillary support it. Unions, neither of them like unions. Social spending, both speak as if social spending is somethign you do once you cut largesse from programs, though never, ever the milatary. Both of them refuse to criticize Israel, despite the fact that just because you think Bibi is self-destructive does not mean you cannot call the PLO out on it's folly. Both of them are products of an elite system that says "the buisness of America is buisness" and everything else is secondary. Both are intelligent, and think they are self-made, self-starters, despite the fact that neither of them would have had half the influence they have if their last name were Smith.

There is no real opposition here. Granted, if Hillary wins I will vote for her, if only because Sotomayor and Kagan proved how important it is to heal the Supreme Court. Granted, I would rather have Scalia in a jail cell, but that is not happening soon, and it will not happen under Bush. However, the fact that we are bringing in relics of a world that is not, people tryign to revive solutions and methods that frankly, did not work that great the first time, is a sad commentary on our nations, and democracy itself. It is especially sad that the one thing standing between either of these two and the White House, is not a change in values or methods, but that some billionaire may choose to push button a or b because they themselves suffer from Bush/Clinton faitgue as much as many of us do.