09-17-2016, 11:14 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-17-2016, 11:32 AM by Eric the Green.)
(09-16-2016, 03:24 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: I wish I could be as optimistic as you. Defaulting to my usual realist self, at best, HRC would probably throw a few bones to the educated middle income groups. My main hope is, anyone-but-Trump. Since coming to Washington and then moving to the NYC upper crust burbs, HRC has been part of the bubble world of Friedman et al. All we can hope for is, some of the experiences of her early career (I'm talking way long time ago, when she was a new grad) will well up from the old memory banks and influence her world view.
Yes, it will, and from her more recent years too. She is not Bill, and I certainly would not lump HRC in with Friedman; they are poles apart (well, I see you mean Thomas, not Milton; I can see that. But they aren't the same either). The main thrust of her life and career is to lift up those who are hurting and left outside, not tout the new high-tech global economy. I am more optimistic about her, if she's elected; which I have predicted she will be. I'll stick with that, just as I did when Romney was up 4 very short years ago at this time against Obama. My scoring system now says that Romney had no chance at all against Obama. It's tighter with Hillary, but on balance I think she'll make it, and do OK. She is never really popular, and the lies said about her continue, thanks to whom the opposition is; but that doesn't mean she can't do the job.
What she needs to do to win is create more enthusiasm about herself and where she wants to take the country, not just run down the other guy, as bad as he is. That's tough, it seems, because there isn't much to say that hasn't already been said. Trump's destructive direction seems a bit novel. His supporters say they want a bull in a China shop to shake things up. But we NEED that China, and we need the shop to be functional. They don't see that it's the Republicans who created today's situation; who need changing and shaking out. We need to deal with climate change, not make it worse. We need to deal with inequality and economic stagnation, not make it worse as Trump would do with more of the same supply-side nonsense that ruined the economy in the first place, and got us to where we are. Those are the issues, but the problem is, it's all been said and everyone knows it. So how does Hillary make that into a shining city on a hill? She needs a mythmaker to sing a song that will lift the spirits of the country. I'm not sure what that would be at the moment.
Maybe she should hire Bieber.