Embrace the ’70s, Hillary! (Hillary Group)

[BootinUp]

Snippets from an interesting article at the Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/23/embrace-the-70s-hillary.html?source=socialflow&via=twitter_page&account=thedailybeast&medium=twitter

Embrace the ’70s, Hillary!
Clinton has long been reluctant to talk about her work during the 1970s.

Many Americans feel she has not presented her life story, fully, honestly. Being more policy wonk than natural pol doesn’t help. But she also suffers from her own caution, built up by being burned as a controversial frst lady. Pressured to abandon her maiden name and change her hairstyle in the 1980s, humiliated in 1992 and 1993, Hillary Rodham learned to hide in public. In telling her story, Hillary Clinton should reframe two defining traumas from her national debut, instead of dodging them.

Whether or not you approve of her liberalism, Hillary Clinton has few apologies to make about her 1970s. During a stage of life when the hearty-partier George W. Bush was drinking heavily, the pot-smoking Barack Obama was trying cocaine, and the draft-avoiding Bill Clinton was “not inhaling” marijuana, this smart idealist was trying to change the world. Despite looking like a flower child wannabe, Hillary Rodham always stayed within the system.

As first lady, Hillary Clinton endured a different trauma. On April 6, 1993, she spoke at the University of Texas in Austin. With all we have, “we lack at some core level meaning” in our lives, she lamented. Crime in the streets, nihilism on the news, fury in our politics, reflected “alienation and despair and hopelessness.”

[upaloopa]

1. I think Hillary is one of the most misunderstood

people in public life. You can see it readily on this board. Just about every anti Hillary post here is dishonest without any factual basis at all.

She represents to Bernie people the evil their crusade is meant to wipe out, though she really isn't their enemy. Out there is all the stuff preventing them from having the progressive life they want to live. Hillary is a road block so they dump on her all the angst they have for society in general.

[Hortensis]

2. So true. Thank you for an excellent article, Bootinup.

I notice that even that article assumes the dishonesty spread by her enemies is internalized in all American memories as reality. Most of those lies and slurs were forgotten long ago by me since I wasn't among those who lapped them up delightedly. That must be true of many Americans and key to understanding what to her enemies is truly incomprehensible: the respect those who were never fooled have for her.

[msrizzo]

3. I did enjoy reading this

People forget how much of the Clinton's lives were shaped by the relentless attacks they endured. They are survivors and so people seem to think it was easy for them.

[Gamecock Lefty]

4. That's one reason . . .

. . . I dig in so much when Hillary is attacked. The constant trashing and calling names make me support her even stronger! And Bernie supporters on DU have become some of the worst!

I can appreciate how Hillary was influenced by the 70s just as I was the 60s. There’s no doubt my political beliefs are a direct influence of that most wonderful era. Sure, we experienced the sadness of the assassinations of Kennedy, Kennedy and King and that terrible Asian war, but we also had gay rights, civil rights, women’s rights, Woodstock and the best era of music ever – from the British Invasion to all that great anti-war music to the best sound ever – Motown!

I gotta say, I do love me some Hillary Clinton and cannot wait to call her Madam President!!!