Breaking News from 2015

At USA Today Christian Schneider offers a column, “Democrats, it’s time for you to dump Hillary Clinton”. That’s timely advice for 2015. The 2016 presidential election pitted two candidates, each with the highest negatives in history, against one another. A better Democratic candidate, of whom there were many from which to select, could have made the difference. Here’s his analysis of Ms. Clinton’s latest jibes against a major segment of the American people:

At a recent conference in Mumbai, India, Clinton further cast aside her presidential façade and told the world what she really thought of “middle America.” She boasted that she had won “the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic,” and “moving-forward,” and noted she did best in “places that represent two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product.”

She suggested President Donald Trump’s appeal was mostly to white men who “didn’t like black people getting rights,” who disapproved of “women getting jobs,” and who begrudged Indian-Americans for their success. As a final ingredient to her toxic bouillabaisse, Clinton added that white women often voted for Trump because of “ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should.”

If there were a Hall of Fame for irony, Clinton would have it named after her. In accusing weak-minded white women of blindly voting the way men told them to, she was proving exactly why white women were wise not to vote for her. It is a significant reason she has now had to play the role of failed presidential candidate twice.

I hope that people have the wit to recognize that “Hillary Clinton” is a synecdoche for the entire corrupt web of faux technocrats who, by virtue of their notional credentials, are cross-ruffing government and the private sector, particularly the financial sector, into wealth and power for themselves and ruin for the rest of us.

Judging by the incessant robo-calls I’m receiving in anticipation of the Illinois primary elections tomorrow, they don’t. The leading candidates for practically all races are those who represent that very group.