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My comments:
If the Chicago Daily Tribune extra: “Dewy defeats Truman” on November 3, 1948 can remind a reader of anything, it would be prudence. Yes, H.R.C. has now the upper hand over D.J.T. but so had Dewey once over Truman.
“Mrs. Clinton won the Democratic nomination fairly easily,” as Paul Krugman said flatly and plainly in the article as though no opponent of hers ever had existed. The fact is that her campaign headquarters or the D.N.C. had stolen the contest for her with put-downs and traducement against her opponent Bernie Sanders as evident from WikiLeaks and made her Dem nomination a piece of cake. In addition, the scandalous super-delegate rule which is designed to discriminate against outsiders such as B.S. openly sides with the establishment - socket puppet of the rich and powerful without the least abashment. The author designated the Republican as the only establishment is beneath discussion.
“Maybe Mrs. Clinton is winning because she possesses some fundamental political strength ” “[She] kept her cool during 11 hours of grilling over Benghazi, and made her interrogators look like fools”? Well she was cool because she was and still is the head-fangirl and the party darling of the establishment, supported by capital that protects her from criticisms, either internal or outward. Coolness is far from being honest, rather it often hides many dishonesties; a cool hypocrite does not need to lose one’s cool to be a knave in grain. “[T]he strengths she showed in the debates are also strengths that would serve her well as president
- self-possessed, almost preternaturally calm under pressure, deeply prepared, clearly in command of policy issues.” The author mistakenly confuses demeanor, manner or tone and comportment of a presidential candidate with one’s state-systemic perspectiveness, transformability and adaptability; a person may look dignified, make oneself pleasant and “in command” in appearance only.
“She truly cares about her signature issues, and believes in the solutions she’s pushing.” Obama in 2008 severely criticize her as a politician who “will say anything and change nothing.” Of course, both change but very little, either as a President or as a Secretary, of the establishment machine in terms of its corruption, incompetency, duplicity and jingoism. Both have been bombastic about changes, and none has made a shred of awe-inspiring changes, so egregiously notorious that there are very few new “policy issues”, signature or not, that have not been in verbiage - “you need both a public and a private position,” as H.R.C. said in an email, courtesy of WikiLeaks. What they care about most of all is their own or posterity’s wellbeing; the Clintons accumulate much more than one hundred million dollars in wealth although their official salaries were only in the low hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. They had made sure their daughter Chelsea got the best education and best job in Wall Street; the Obamas are not falling behind and will make sure their two first daughters get Wall Street jobs and with that kind of clairvoyance neither H.R.C. nor Obama can be trusted to indict Wall Street criminals.
“She’s a formidable figure,” mainly because big and dark money invest on her obedience to capital which makes her looking formidable to its oppositions. Her anticipated win in the general election not only will redound to the investor but also upon the middle class who want to support only known actors on the political arena for self-interests, hoping H.R.C. will get the job and become the first female president to satisfy their “being the first” vanity. Another “being the first” factor of her formidableness is of course that the Obama administration has unprecedentedly and also extra-legally extended state power to rescue her from her fraud-ridden records to which she will permanently hold on and add more for life. Obama has no hesitation to do the rescue as he said in 2008: “People in power rig elections.” Nevertheless their succès par médissance or success through scandal cannot be simply dismissed as speculation.
The Dem establishment mouthpieces have constantly presented in their newspaper puffs how conservative other establishment factions are as well as how progressive they themselves can be. The fact of the matter is that their progressiveness is more hot air than conservativeness. There is no progress and its attributes in the dictionary of the establishment at all. All the establishment forces are fearful of progress; they want to maintain the status quo so that no meaningful changes will ever run contrary to their own vested interests and no powers that be will ever slip through their fingers. They play triumphantly the role of power brokers between people and capital; in the public intercourse, they brag and boast how effectual their negotiations with capital are and how many popular rights, policies and interests they have won over but in actuality the reverse is true of most of the times. They are capital’s bellhops pretending to condescend to accept bribes for the public interests. Meantime the middle class knowingly countenance them, for instance, by preparing to vote for H.R.C. while the more powerful incredulous and uninhibited minds are determined to fight against the establishment. Things seen in perspective are that both parties of the duopoly belong to the same establishment machine and political hacks are marionettes directed by unseen capital puppeteers; partisan spars are sheer hypocritical; inter-establishmental party politics must be rid of importance, replaced by a new democratic revolution; the real political struggle is not between the two parties but between the anti-establishment and pro-establishment forces.
The new political struggle will doubtlessly begin a concerted effort for the working class to engage in a more united struggle than the past long period before D.J.T. emerged into the scene to fight against their apparent agent cum suppressor, the establishment, and through which their mortal foe, the capital hegemony. But, before that, the politically misguided and wrong-headed middle class section has to be made repentant of their folly such as try their luck on H.R.C.’s proven hocus-pocus which will wake them up sooner than thought possible. The revolution needs peremptory challenges to its core force, the non-middle –class section, in order to upend the establishment or the governing class. And the core force needs its right front, the middle class, in order to overturn the capital hegemony. The challenges include deteriorated economic slump, unemployment, rapidly worsening climate change, exposing the legitimate racket of the ruling class to be defeated, large-scaled global war danger and shock to world financial, political exchange market as well as the market society, about which the anticipated H.R.C. regime will most likely bring.
Mark Wain
(https://www.facebook.com/andrew.colesville/)
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