By Doug Henwood
“My flip is compulsively solid reading—not just for its glimpse into Hillary Clinton's brain yet for its insights into the whole Clinton political-philanthropic computer. Doug Henwood is either clever and—almost uniquely for this crusade season—sane.” —Barbara Ehrenreich, writer of Nickel and Dimed
“Doug Henwood sums up the argument opposed to Ms. Clinton well.” —New York Observer
“Doug Henwood… twisted the proof to argue that Hillary was once a corporatist wolf in sheep’s clothing.” —David Brock
“I represented Wall road, as a senator from New York.” —Hillary Clinton, October 2015, through the first Democratic television debate
Hillary Clinton is operating for the presidency with a message of wish and alter. yet, as Doug Henwood makes transparent during this concise, devastating indictment, little belief could be put in her crusade delivers. conscientiously reviewing her checklist, Henwood indicates how Clinton’s positions on key concerns have regularly blown with the breeze of expediency, notwithstanding mostly round an axis of moralism and hawkishness. and not using a significant software except a extensive fealty to the established order, Henwood indicates, “the case for Hillary boils all the way down to this: she has adventure, she’s a girl, and it’s her turn.”
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The payoff is how all these communications combine to produce decisions, laws, and policies. ) The second major element of a working political system concerns the processes that identify “the people” whose interests are (or are not) being promoted. ” On a theoretical level, the concept is constantly being reformulated in the literature. The debate is inconclusive in part because the term has both a legal and a theoretical reality. The legal status of “citizen” varies from system to system, and the relationship of the legal status of “citizen” to other characteristics of individuals is not agreed on.
Although the channels are not “normal,” the influences of these groups are shaped by various norms and laws and arrangements. In other words, there are institutions that shape their representation, for good or ill. An extreme nationalist position might be that no representation of noncitizens is better than any at all, so the dominant institution would be negative: 42 ✯ THE PEOPLE prohibition. But far more rational would be an effort to regulate the links, even if it was done exclusively for the benefit of the core citizenry.
16 Overcoming the possibility of mutual delusion is as important as avoiding selfish behavior on the part of decision makers or ungrounded anti-elite actions by masses of people. The links are complex for another reason, too. We are speaking of democracy, which requires that decisions be made in the public interest. If there is any tendency for decision makers not to rule in the people’s interest—to reward themselves or simply to be incompetent—the links must go beyond conveying information to include the means for keeping them in line.