2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Tell me why me and almost everyone else in my age group should trust Hillary. [View all]alarimer
(16,245 posts)I do believe that you should not have high expectations for a Clinton administration. I fully expect someone like Jamie Dimon to be named Secretary of the Treasury and someone like Kissinger (but not, because he's too old) to be Secretary of State. In other words, no one progressive at all. Maybe some corporate retread for EPA and Interior, as well.
We've been lied to for decades. Things will not be getting better, probably ever. Not with the system we have, not with the candidates we're allowed to choose from. And certainly not from the Democratic Party. We were sold old years ago, mostly by Bill Clinton and other Third Way types. In order to "win", they (the Party, the DLC) sold out every single progressive principle. So win or lose elections, the people still lose.
I think this is the lesson she needs to learn, that people are fed up with being lied to, fed up with being on the losing end. If she is smart (and I think she is), she will truly heed this lesson and do something besides talk a good game. But in my (very cynical) heart, I think we are in for more of the same. How much of that can people take before they explode?
If Clinton beats Trump, we will have dodged a bullet, but it will also just put off the reckoning for a little while. But there will be one, sooner or later. I expect younger generations will bear the brunt. People of my generation will just have to eat cat food while we wait for sea level rise to drown us in our beds.