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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus4/15/2018 6:13:06 pm PDT

re: #180 Anymouse 🌹

It’s hard for anyone to admit they backed the wrong candidate, or backed a loser.

Not only that, but I suspect that the poisoning-of-the-well that has been done against the Clintons for 30 years really has affected even self declared “progressives” and “liberals”.

Way back when, namely the early 1980’s, when I first became more aware of politics and society, information flowed mostly through the major TV networks, then the major newspapers, and some radio networks.

It was pretty easy to totally miss out on anything not in one’s local community.

Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas, a state in which the Democratic party had for a long time been associated with Confederates. When he and some other southern Democrats made their attempt at a “middle way” for the Democratic party to appeal to more whites in the South, I think the backlash against the Clintons took germ.

Not just in the Republicans, who had since incorporated George Wallace’s bigoted followers, but also among some Democrats from outside of middle America, a kernel of resentment arose against the Clintons.