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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton on Iraq vote: ‘I still got it wrong. Plain and simple.’ [View all]johnlucas
(1,250 posts)Sometimes seemingly disparate events end up being echoes of past historical sequences.
I saw that analogy as soon as Obama won the nomination in 2008.
He didn't win this easily & Hillary was HELLA formidable.
She WAS going to be the President.
But history intervened.
And it ends up echoing past breakthroughs this country had made with the rights of its citizens.
The abolitionist movement is directly tied to the worker's right movement & the women's rights movement.
After they freed the Blacks, they moved on to free other oppressed groups in the country.
It's easy to see that how the Labor Movement ties into Slavery Abolition since both cover unfair compensation & unfair treatment of humanity.
But the Women's Rights Movement is just as tied to it for the same reasons.
Black slaves had no voice in their government & Women had no voice in their government.
Blacks had little to no control over their lives. Women had little to no control over their lives.
There were differences in the details between these groups but the themes remained the same.
Even the historical schisms between Blacks' Rights & Women's Rights showed itself in 2008 during that run up to the Democratic National Convention.
Wasn't it Frederick Douglass who couldn't see the parallels between the injustice to Blacks & the injustice to Women?
Didn't this effectively separate the Blacks' Rights & Women's Rights movements?
Making women exclusively fight for women above all & making Blacks do the same?
The effect being that women didn't get the right to vote until decades later?
I see all of that when I look at Barack & Hillary in their runs for the Presidency.
To me it is no coincidence.
History is bleeding into the Present.
Either way the Democratic Party is GUARANTEED to be seen as the political party of growth.
The 1st Black/Multiethnic President followed by the 1st Female President.
If Hillary plays her cards right, she can speed up the extinction of the Republican Party on the national stage.
That will eventually kill the Republican Party on the regional stages since they will have no central platform to organize under.
After Hillary, the Democratic Party will be the place where many people of different groups can feel they have a chance in excelling within.
First Asian, First Latino, First Native American, First (openly) Gay.
It would cause a DEFINITE realignment of the political structure & the opposition will struggle to counter it.
Eventually the Democratic Party will get so big it will splinter & fracture creating a new realignment but by then the notion that every group can possibly become President won't be a fantasy anymore.
And that changes political participation when you feel you can have a stake in this game.
The root of it came from Obama breaking that barrier in 2008.
All Hillary has to do is follow the natural consequence of history.
John Lucas