{"id":2072,"date":"2007-02-09T22:14:31","date_gmt":"2007-02-10T05:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/02\/09\/hillary-clinton-and-the-politics-of-mass-mental-disenfranchisement\/"},"modified":"2007-02-09T22:14:31","modified_gmt":"2007-02-10T05:14:31","slug":"hillary-clinton-and-the-politics-of-mass-mental-disenfranchisement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/02\/09\/hillary-clinton-and-the-politics-of-mass-mental-disenfranchisement\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton and the Politics of Mass Mental Disenfranchisement"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are now treated to the stories about Hillary Clinton’s Inevitable nomination.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps it is a mix of Republican anti-Clinton fear and loathing<\/a> that posits that they are running around closed doors with the dread that there’s nothing to can do to stop the presidency of Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

I posited that the best way to stop this was in 2004, by electing John Kerry.\u00c2\u00a0 The Republicans didn’t listen to me.\u00c2\u00a0 Now Hillary Clinton is believed to be inevitable.<\/p>\n

Her nomination strategy is said to be about creating an aura of inevitibility.\u00c2\u00a0 It is the Politics of Mass Dread, of Mass Mental Disenfranchisement.\u00c2\u00a0 She is the Inevitable because she has the connections and the money and it is an anti-Republican mood.\u00c2\u00a0 There is nothing the American people, who all seem to universally dislike her, can do to stop her from assuming the Presidency.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a strange world that finds Jonah Goldberg contemplating Democratic (or maybe liberal — I don’t know) antipathy toward Clinton<\/a> as though it is a new occurence — and noting the same goddamned things Molly Ivins has.<\/p>\n

I remember listening to Rush Limbaugh (in bits and pieces as I’ve done in the past) and hearing him do a bit on behalf of Ralph Nader, a parody ad which missed all and any mark.\u00c2\u00a0 “Don’t Worry About Electing George Bush.\u00c2\u00a0 Because is 4 Years You’ll Have the Candidate You want.\u00c2\u00a0 Hillary Rodham.”\u00c2\u00a0 (And it was “Rodham”.)<\/p>\n

Ralph Nader says he’s running if Hillary is running, more or less.\u00c2\u00a0 Makes perfect sense to me.\u00c2\u00a0 It was Clinton he was running against in 2000 (and kind of in 1996.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are now treated to the stories about Hillary Clinton’s Inevitable nomination.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps it is a mix of Republican anti-Clinton fear and loathing that posits that they are running around closed doors with the dread that there’s nothing to can do to stop the presidency of Hillary Clinton. I posited that the best way to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}