Listen, Liberal by Thomas Frank

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65. It's hard to know if Bill and Hillary and all the other New Way Dems, Neoliberals, whatever name you

want to put on them, it's hard to know if they fully understand that their policies have gutted the Middle Class. If they've done it knowingly, they're criminals. If unknowingly, they really should have figured it out by now.

Welfare reform created worse poverty than ever. It could have been done differently. The various crime bills, most notoriously the three strikes ones incarcerated millions for little good reasons. Back in the early 90's we had a prison population of about 800,000, the highest in the world both in sheer numbers and as percentage of our overall population. Now it's well over 2 million. Is this something we should be proud of?

So if you get what Hillary is, a proponent of the many policies that have harmed the middle and working classes, I'm surprised you're willing to vote for her. Then again, you may be perfectly okay with those policies and the results they've produced.

Note: according to Wikipedia the Seychelles actually have the highest incarceration rate in the world.