Below is a sample from a recent article by one of my favorite military historians. In this article he outlines the reasons why Slick Willy’s den mother believes in her nearly aristocratic claim on the presidency. To read the rest click on the link at the bottom of the page.
The insights the old historian shows into the alliance between the left and the superrich represents a total blind spot for grass roots level liberals, who have no idea that the super rich are merely throwing the almost rich to the collectivist dogs.
IV. Money, Money, Money…
Four, Hillary Clinton assumes that she can buy her way to the White House and trump even the Obama shakedowns of the one-percent elite. No one grubs money better than the Clintons, who have turned a so-so presidential foundation into a money-laundering machine for their global jetting and politicking.
Both Bill and Hillary have an uncanny insight into the very wealthy of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, the Upper West Side, and the Florida coast. They understand the formula: when many of the rich become very rich they no longer worry about high tax rates, either on the assurance that they have the capital and know-how to avoid them, or in the belief that that a 50% federal and state rate could hardly eat away much of their enormous pile. Huge federal redistributionist policies may fail and hurt the minorities and poor, but for now they are felt to be about the only insurance that the gates of the rich will not be stormed or their private schools and neighborhoods flooded.
The Clintons rightly sense that the one-percenters in certain fleeting moments feel awfully bad about their privilege. Thus they will feel much better about indulging their endless material appetites, if they give large tax-deductible contributions to the spread-the-wealth, help-the-helpless shtick of elite Democrats. The lifestyles of Hill and Bill over the last two decades reassure wealthy liberals that it is OK to wallow in the material good life as long as you pay occasional penance for such indulgence — and there is no better atonement than helping Hillary Clinton out in 2016 to speak truth to power. After all, with students facing $1 trillion in aggregate debt, Clinton marched into UCLA, check-listed some liberal nostrums for 30 minutes and walked away with $300,000 without a complaint — or about $165 in scarce university dollars for each second of her pieties. In other words, Hillary is running because she has invested enough in the past that the money will be harvested as never before in a presidential race.
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VDH is spot on! Both the Clintons, and President Obama, practice “third way” socialism as originated by Mussolini: enlist the very rich/ big business as allies to your socialist cause. The rich appreciate the fact that they will be allowed to keep their wealth and their position in society AND that the government will help them eliminate their competition. As economist Dr. Walter Williams has pointed out, the most effective way for a business to become a monopoly is with the help of the government. Small businesses cannot endure and survive over-taxation and over-regulation like big corporations can. It’s easier to sink a row-boat than it is to sink a battleship. So the big corporations / ultra-rich will gladly pay the protection money. Besides having access to tons of money to finance her campaign publicity, Hillary’s other hole cards are:
1. She’s a woman. Many people will vote for her simply because they will want to see a woman, any woman, elected president for the first time. Conversely, if you oppose her, it will said it is because you are a man who hates women or are a self-loathing woman. So get your mind right, or else shut up!
2. We’ll get Bill back. Everyone will know that Bill Clinton (first dude, co-president, president emeritus, etc.) will be the real power behind the throne. All the people who were in their 20’s and 30’s back in the 1990’s remember the Clinton Administration as a time of “peace” and prosperity. They will likely be desperate to see those days return and will attribute the good times to the efforts of Bill. Plus they will want to be able to engage in extra-curricular activities in the office, as Bill did, and see him as a pioneer, a role-model, in this regard.
3. The Republicans may yet nominate another bland, moderate, “Democrat-light”, “establishment” candidate. This would likely alienate Conservatives and cause them to abstain from the voting by the millions, as happened in 2008 and 2012. Many Conservatives and Libertarians I have spoken with maintain that they refuse to vote for the “lesser of the evils”, because the “lesser of the evils is still evil”. Well Ok, I can appreciate sticking to one’s principles, but, nevertheless, elections have consequences and one cannot hope to change the direction of the country at all unless one is in power. I guess they would rather see the country fragment sooner rather than later. Forgive me, I’m old and was hoping to forestall this inevitability for a while longer.
4. If Conservatives stay home and Democrats are able to mobilize their Leftist base, it could tip the balance in Hillary’s favor. The Obama Admin has been compiling data bases of everyone who has voted Democrat in past elections (liveleak.com/view?i=49a_1360284775). They will be herded to the polls.
“The Onion” has a particularly prescient take on Hillary Clinton’s candidacy. As they say, all good humor has an element of truth to it. theonion.com/articles/hillary-clinton-to-nation-do-not-fuck-this-up-for,38416/ Vote for Hillary, or you will be exterminated!
I'm pasting these together as an article Jeremy,
Thanks