The Worst of All Worlds

[Pryderi]

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/clinton-vs-trump-the-worst-of-all-worlds/474024/?

What could be worse for a creaky, cancerous political system than a match between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump?

If you had asked me four years ago to concoct the most dispiriting and debilitating 2016 presidential campaign, I might have said, “Start with a political family; find a scandal-scarred creature of Washington addicted to 20th-century identity politics.”

“Now find a vacuous outsider; somebody who reflects the worst of modern politics and culture. A celebrity would be perfect. Better yet, a reality star who is famous for being famous, a social media whore, a boor, a bully who traffics in old hates via new technologies.”

I might have picked Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump. What could be worse for a creaky, cancerous political system than what the Democratic and Republican parties are brewing up? Nothing really. This is as bad as it gets.

[gcomeau]

1. Yup

The establishment and Clinton supporters are dead set on making sure our choices this year are a little to the right or a lot to the right... and either way a continuation of everything wrong with the Democratic party and no move towards reform.


And they're so damn gleeful at every step they take in that direction.