One of my favorite political philosophers, Michael Lind has a post at Politico about her speech yesterday. Really the 2 political philosophers who've had the most impact on my mature political philosophy have been Lind and Garry Wills.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=michael+lind
Here is Wills' book that had a huge impact on me:
http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Conservative-Garry-Wills/dp/0385089775/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1436866422&sr=1-1&keywords=garry+wills+confessions+of+a+conservative
If you ever wonder what my quote of Thaddeus Stevens on my Twitter page means-'Betray your principles and stand by your party' read that book.
Anyway, Lind points out that after years when Democrats ran on not being too liberal, things have come full circle.
"Hillary Clinton made a big break with Barack Obama in her economic speech in New York on Monday, and it was a telling one. She lamented that too many executives on Wall Street—a major source of support for her as well as Obama—managed to avoid prosecution after the 2008 crash."
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=michael+lind
Here is Wills' book that had a huge impact on me:
http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Conservative-Garry-Wills/dp/0385089775/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1436866422&sr=1-1&keywords=garry+wills+confessions+of+a+conservative
If you ever wonder what my quote of Thaddeus Stevens on my Twitter page means-'Betray your principles and stand by your party' read that book.
Anyway, Lind points out that after years when Democrats ran on not being too liberal, things have come full circle.
“This is wrong and under my watch, it will change,” Clinton said. If it wasn’t exactly Teddy Roosevelt taking on the “malefactors of great wealth” (with his cousin Franklin later echoing him), the line was significant. Together with what Clinton called “the defining challenge of our time”—to “raise incomes for hard-working Americans so they can afford a middle class life”—her speech marked a distinct intellectual and rhetorical departure from where the Democrats have been the past couple of decades."
"Call it the New Clintonism. It is a break with the late 20th century school of “neoliberalism,” or Democratic centrism, that has influenced the Obama administration as well as the administration of the first Clinton in the White House ever since President Bill Clinton, in a reluctant bow to Ronald Reagan, dedicated himself to keeping the bond market happy and declared that “the era of big government is over.”
"After a generation in which many Democrats sought to prove they were not too liberal, the political winds have shifted. For the first time in a generation, the center-left is enjoying a tailwind, not facing a headwind."
"Skeptics might dismiss the anti-Wall Street rhetoric and many of the proposals in Clinton’s speech—from expanded preschool and daycare and paid family leave and the defense of Social Security to greater public investment in infrastructure—as attempts to prevent the loss of progressive Democratic primary voters to Bernie Sanders and other rivals. But Clinton is opening up new ground for a mainstream Democratic president of this era in implying that the very structures of modern finance and corporate capitalism are flawed and in need of reform."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/hillary-economic-speech-shift-leftward-120056.html#ixzz3frCidVWb
"Call it the New Clintonism. It is a break with the late 20th century school of “neoliberalism,” or Democratic centrism, that has influenced the Obama administration as well as the administration of the first Clinton in the White House ever since President Bill Clinton, in a reluctant bow to Ronald Reagan, dedicated himself to keeping the bond market happy and declared that “the era of big government is over.”
"After a generation in which many Democrats sought to prove they were not too liberal, the political winds have shifted. For the first time in a generation, the center-left is enjoying a tailwind, not facing a headwind."
"Skeptics might dismiss the anti-Wall Street rhetoric and many of the proposals in Clinton’s speech—from expanded preschool and daycare and paid family leave and the defense of Social Security to greater public investment in infrastructure—as attempts to prevent the loss of progressive Democratic primary voters to Bernie Sanders and other rivals. But Clinton is opening up new ground for a mainstream Democratic president of this era in implying that the very structures of modern finance and corporate capitalism are flawed and in need of reform."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/hillary-economic-speech-shift-leftward-120056.html#ixzz3frCidVWb
Agreed, but I have to add the caveat that Obama deserves a lot of the credit for this move. He sought to be a transformational President and he has been that-a bridge beyond the Reagan Revolution.
The new Iraq deal-coming after opening an embassy in Cuba-is the latest example.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/07/done-deal-obamas-years-of-diplomacy.html
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