One of my mentors I most revere (Edgar Klugman) lectured once that if you are looking to change an organization, you must first look @ who were the founders as well as what were their founding principles. With that in mind, when you look @ who founded this nation and what were the guiding tenets motivating them, you'll begin to understand how difficult it is to change progressively much what drives this country.
Remember for all those lofty words ensconced in the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution, the US was founded by rich white guys protecting racism and slavery and property-driven income inequality; and within a couple of decades after the founding solidifying the notion that our nation was driven by a "Manifest Destiny" -- i.e. a divine right to exploit, conquer and commit genocide.
And that it took almost 100 years before African Americans were considered people and not chattel, and 150 years before women were even recognized as part of the voting citizenry.
And apart for the short epoch where the ruling class was frightened enough that a populist uprising might take place that they allowed FDR to institute the New Deal, and which carried through up until Johnson's, The Great Society, this county is still be driven by the same founding principles of racism, income inequality and trying to control the world.
So all this bullshit about Hillary being some kind of transformational change agent is just that, bullshit -- she's as much part of the continuing ruling oligarchy as any other corporately funded neo-liberal rich white person -- she just happens to be female.
But be that as it may, I still believe Hillary is far more flexible to change than Trump would be, IF Bernie and the movement associated with his candidacy can maintain the momentum to actively affect social policy. For that reason only, I plan to vote for her.
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