Election Predictions
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Hillary Clinton, an additional competitor for the 2016 Presidential Nomination of the National Democratic Party, represents a third alternative: an equally classical “American Compromise” that has often been struck by the governing class in American politics, representing an attempt to straddle the fence between these two opposing extremes – on the one hand embracing (often in closeddoor private speeches to gatherings of the heads of American business corporations and financial houses such as Goldman Sachs) the unquestioned alliance between Government and Big Business, while, on the other hand, publicly extolling the candidate’s desire to TRY TO move our nation’s public and private policies voluntarily toward a more egalitarian distribution of the wealth, while doing at least something for the least well off. Realistically recognizing, however, that such “efforts” must remain entirely voluntary on the part of “The 1%”, which will make such efforts understandably difficult, because these efforts are opposed by “very powerful political forces within our nation” who must be “respected” and “accommodated” within our ”representative” democratic political system.
Readings:
- G. William Domhoff, Who Rules America?Chapters 7, 8 Appendix A & B
- Kathy Gill, Clinton: The Candidate of Finance and the Establishment, The Moderate Voice, http://themoderatevoice.com/212937/
- Michael Tanner, President Bill v Candidate Hillary, National Review, January 6, 2016, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429286/clintonsnomination