Plutocrat Silly-Smart Hillary

© 2015 Peter Free

 

20 November 2015

 

 

Totalitarian-oriented buffoonery is not exclusively a Republican Party phenomenon

 

Take former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, perhaps the most experienced and usually competent stupid ass in top level politics.

 

At a recent Democratic 2016 presidential candidate debate, responding to Senator Bernie Sanders’ criticism of her well-financed political affiliation with Wall Street:

 

 

I represented New York, and I represented New York on 9/11, when we were attacked.

 

Where were we attacked? We were attacked in downtown Manhattan, where Wall Street is. I did spend a whole lot of time and effort helping them rebuild.

 

That was good for New York. It was good for the economy, and it was a way to rebuke the terrorists who had attacked our country.

 

© 2015 Meredith Shiner, Clinton cites 9/11 in defending Wall Street donations, Yahoo (15 November 2015) (reformatted excerpts)

 

 

What is one to make of such non-sequitur-like nonsense?

 

Being attacked for being a plutocrat, Secretary Clinton responded by saying that when Plutocracy was physically attacked by flying airplanes into financial buildings and incinerating three thousand helpless people, she helped rebuild our Proud Oligarchy with Wall Street’s apparently unburned money.

 

 

The moral? — Presumably Hillary Clinton’s point was that oligarchic political domination of America is good — and especially so, when terrorists are killing people

 

There is arguable merit to that proposition, depending upon one’s political philosophy.

 

Just as there was emotionally-appealing intuitive merit (for some people) to former Governor Mitt Romney's comment during the last presidential campaign that:

 

 

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what . . . . there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. . . . And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax.

 

[M]y job is is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.

 

© 2012 David Corn, Romney Tells Millionaire Donors What He REALLY Thinks of Obama Voters, Mother Jones (17 September 2012) (extracts)

 

Secretary Hillary Clinton appears to be agreeing with Governor Romney that our American Plutocracy justifiably buys government officials, so as to fend off the America-threatening non-Wall Street and terrorist rabble.

 

Or something like that.

 

That’s Hillary in a nutshell. Bright, visibly competent, and prone to being unable to hide the fact that she is the Happy Moneybags Warmonger.

 

American as apple pie. I guess.