Hillary could be the final nail in the middle-class coffin.

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299. You led with alarm about Clinton's appealing to women

I sliced out nothing. Your last post asked "how do you talk about women without saying women." You don't, but the question is why you find it so disturbing that Clinton or any other politician addresses the concerns of women? Add to that the "minorities" you reference, who together with women are the overwhelming majority of the nation.

You invoke GOP rhetoric that acknowledging the demographic composition of the nation amounts to division. You insist Clinton should build her campaign around the 11 percent of the adult population organized into unions. I'm all for unions, and I consider the decline of unions a major problem. However, I resent your claim that there is something wrong with addressing the electorate as it exists rather than focusing on the minority you care about, or ignoring the interests of the majority and speaking in ways that make you feel comfortable, which is to frame debates as though it were all about you. You share this country with people from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and genders, and politicians are not going to exclude them from political discourse to make you feel comfortable. They address us one way or another, either to court our votes or to rail against us as parasites.