Hillary, centrist creep like her husband

[Carrol Cox]

It seems to me to work best to assume that political figures
intend the results they achieve. Any other assumption seems
to involve guessing at their subjective state of mind on
inadequate evidence. So I tend to see him as deliberately,
in a principled fashion, serving the interests of major sectors
of the u.s. ruling class.

As to the Nation, I prefer to think of it (i.e., its owner/editor)
as achieving precisely what they intend. Their task is to prevent
the development of significant political activity on the left
outside the limits established by the Democratic Party. The
readers they aim at, then, must be precisely those who would
be apt to move into opposition to the Democrat Party, and
those readers must be kept within the Nation fold. Hence the
opposition (merely intellectual) to the more outrageous foreign
policy moves of the Clinton administration (e.g. Kosovo) and
hence their publication of socialist and other leftist writers. And
of course even on Kosovo their main (overall) message was that
it was a debatable issue. And from any principled left position,
Kosovo was not debatable. Even allowing a page (even allowing
letters to the editor) supporting Clinton gave unacceptable
legitimacy to that criminal assault on Serbia. There really are
not two sides to all issues.

Carrol