2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary Clinton Thinks the US Is Great. Why Don't You?
Hillary Clinton thinks she has the perfect comeback to Donald Trump's slogan "Make America Great Again."
Using a debating technique popular on playgrounds across the country -- the same one responsible for zingers like "That's what you are, but what am I?" -- the Clinton campaign is producing baseball hats emblazoned with the words "America Is Already Great."
If "America is already great," it has a funny way of showing it to the massive number of US workers who struggle in various ways each day -- the 15 million workers who have jobs, but get by on $10 an hour or less; the 7.4 million homeowners who are "seriously" underwater on their mortgages; the 31 million people who go without health care because they can't afford the expense.
But that isn't what Clinton has in mind. For her, for the Democratic Party establishment and for the corporate rulers they represent, America is great. Really great.
For them, the Great Recession is part of the past -- corporate profits, Wall Street gambling and skyrocketing CEO compensation haven't just recovered, but are flourishing like never before. Plus, they have a political representative they can count on poised to win the White House: Hillary Clinton.
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http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/36027-hillary-thinks-the-us-great-why-don-t-you
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Then everywhere in the world sucks, but America sucks less.
Make sense?
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)and your daughter's is Mezvinski.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)Clueless 1% idiots with their meaningless throwaway slogans.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)But that's not to say the U.S. doesn't have a lot of room for improvement.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Which puts me at a competitive disadvantage in a nation where those who don't get ahead.