Just saw Hillary talking in a close intimate setting about
how she grew up, the importance of hard work and how she got her values. She really comes to life like that. This intimate type campaign may turn out to be brilliant. She let's her warmth come through. I am reminded of why I was such a fan of hers. Who else saw it?
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The contrast between Hillary's approach, and those of her recently-declared Republican rivals is stark. This on the tail of the media pretending Drymouth Rubio was coherent. 
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Please proceed. 
I don't want to disparage hard work at all. I do hope hard work pays off for people, though it tends to only pay off for white people. Actually white people tend to get paid for no work ("investments", "passive income streams","property"
while people of color get devalued by market forces. But the theory is we all need to work to uphold the economy, pay our fair share of taxes, etc.
What Bill Clinton is really famous for is getting elected byvthe triangulated "middle class" at the expense of the poor. He encourged everyone to believe their problems were being caused by lazywelfare dependents and promised to "reform welfare as we know it". He created the system of chronic homelessness and inflicted torture of the weakest members of society we have today. Republicans just ran with the ball Clinton threw them.
Now here is Hillary - that Inevitable Hillary everyone keeps trying to play down as a representative of Oligarchic Third Way Wall Street interests. She is suppised to be throwing progressives few softballs so we can pretend we still have a 2-party system long enough to elect her.
It's only the day after she announced running for the PRIMARY, for goshsakes!
And her she is alreafy dealing out the coded messages to the Triangulated Middle Class! "Don't worry about my stance on social issues," The REAL Hillary whispers in her intimate setting, "I value people that work hard."
The subtext? There are people whi don't work hard - those people on welfare!
The further subtext? We (the people Hillary is intimately addressing her coded message to) know thoselazy people on welfare are blacks and mexicans! So vote for Hillary, and she will uphold the "hard working" white middle class against the onslaught by continuing her husvand's policies. Instead of fixing all the damage Bill did to urban communities, and how he virtually forced women back into "the family" in rural areas.
I was waiting to see if Hillary would at least recognize herself in the mirror and shape her ticket and campaign in a more progressive direction. But combined with the threat meted out to Bill de Blasio earlier, this little coded message more or less sets my image of Hillary in stone.
Woo Me With Science got it right: Oligarchy Theater.
