IMO Clinton lacked sincerity and spoke poorly
Difficult to look sincere about taking on Corporate America, and vested interests when you’ve been spending the previous few years giving talks to Goldman Sachs execs at $250,000 a pop.
The reason we are faced with idiots like Trump is because mainstream politics on all sides has consistently ignored the ‘Little People’ and fawned at the feet of the corporates, making all their wishes a reality. He stands as a testomony to their abject failure.
I posted this earlier on the thread, but its worth repeating
This is the problem now looming over established parties around the world. When facing candidates who revel in breaking every political rule – indeed, whose rule-breaking defiance is central to their appeal – nothing in the conventional armoury will work.
Still, the way to defeat Trump will not come through clever tactics or even the sharpest mockery. It will only come by understanding the roots of his appeal. Many of those rallying to his flag now are white, blue-collar Americans angry about jobs lost or wages frozen through globalisation and free trade; angry about faraway wars that seem to make no sense and fail to bring the catharsis of victory; and angry about an elite class apparently able to write the rules for its own benefit, gobbling up the wealth and leaving the taxes to be paid by the little people.
Trump’s Republican opponents can’t offer a remedy for those three wounds: they are too implicated in each of them.
That goes equally for Hil and co.
Posted 8 years ago
