Matt D. embraces Hillary-ism.

["Matt D." <afn02065@xxxxxxx>]

Doug Henwood writes:

>Just because Hillary's a target of vicious right-wing attacks doesn't mean
>she's worthy of defense. She combines the worst of the two worlds that
>constitute modern American liberalism: her day job as a bank/corporate
>lawyer, and her free-time pursuits as a high-end social worker. (I won't
>mention her uncanny skills at futures trading, which allowed her to turn
>$2,000 into $100,000; most amateurs, who lack HRC's prodigious gifts, start
>with $100,000 and turn it into $2,000.)

True, true.

He goes on to observe:

>Liberals disguise their authoritarian impulses behind a therapeutic
>rhetoric, but its real intention is to force people to conform to the kinds
>of personality required by modern capitalism. Russell Jacoby made this
>point well when he showed how psychoanalysis, originally a radical critique
>of bourgeois norms, became a branch of mental hygiene emphasizing
>"adjustment" when it came to America.

Finally, he quite rightly concludes:

>Marxists should have no tolerance for this shit. Especially when it comes
>from the mouth of HRC, husband to the man who promised to end welfare as we
>know it. Actually it didn't come from Hillary's mouth; it came from a
>ghostwriter's, whom Hillary has given no credit. At least Newt is gracious
>enough to acknowledge the actual author of the books appearing under his
>name.

When I attempted to introduce the slogan "Hillary Rodham Clinton, Live Like
Her!" into my youth brigade cell back in those heady days of the early nineties,
I was roundly criticized.

And yet there's something so sexy about her!  I can't get her out of my head...
The smile always on the verge of a smirk -- she knows she's faking...  The
almost palpable "fuck you" attitude she has towards Bill...  I think she wants
to be a Marxist-Leninist, it's just that no one's ever taken the time to
show her
how.

Oh, Hillary!  I love you!

Smitten,

-- Matt D.

Note to Jon B-M, cc: Chris B. -- Is this desire desiring its own repression?



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