Chamseddine: The Problem With The Bourgeois Feminist Defense Of Hillary Clinton
https://shadowproof.com/2016/02/18/problem-bourgeois-feminist-defense-hillary-clinton/
Hillary Clinton’s reaction to developing apprehension with her Wall Street associations has been unashamedly contemptuous. To a crowd of enthusiastic supporters, she recently asked, “If we broke up the big banks tomorrow…would that end racism? Would that end sexism?” The crowd yelled “no!” in response.
Marcotte, who foolishly labeled Wall Street “too narrow a target”, has called the Clinton campaign’s response to Sanders’ “economic populism” encouraging—contending that Clinton’s best option in this case is to divert attention to other issues, thereby misleading the public in terms of how anti-capitalism converges with race, gender, and class.
She joins an expanding number of white, bourgeois feminists, satisfied with existing conditions, who either refuse to see this convergence, or are willing to ignore it. POLITICO’s “Hillary’s Woman Problem” feature, which managed to cite an astonishingly few number of women of color, quotes author Gail Sheehy, who calls Clinton “a long distance runner in this race” whose mission, in all of its remarkable “breadth,” is being misunderstood by young women. Sheehy echoes Clinton’s rebuttal—that Wall Street does have too much influence, but opposition won’t solve everything. And so, it is clear dispossession of intersectionality is not purely Clintonian. Divorcing the racialized element of capitalist exploitation has become a hallmark of white liberal feminism.
There are those who can simply afford to be lackadaisical when confronted with the depth of Wall Street influence. They can afford a shrugged approach, which paints economic imperialism as an imaginative spook, posing little to no concern. After all, how distressing can the financial establishment be to those unaffected by its destruction?
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Her father (not step father), had a successful textile business.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton
The Party Elite just don't give a shit about the middle-class, Poor, or unions and haven't since the DLC sold the Party to the Koch Bros in the 80's.
Listen Liberal or What ever happened to the Party of the People?
http://www.listenliberal.com/
From the bestselling author of What's the Matter With Kansas, a scathing look at the standard-bearers of liberal politics — a book that asks: what's the matter with Democrats?
It is a widespread belief among liberals that if only Democrats can continue to dominate national elections, if only those awful Republicans are beaten into submission, the country will be on the right course.
But this is to fundamentally misunderstand the modern Democratic Party. Drawing on years of research and first-hand reporting, Frank points out that the Democrats have done little to advance traditional liberal goals: expanding opportunity, fighting for social justice, and ensuring that workers get a fair deal. Indeed, they have scarcely dented the free-market consensus at all. This is not for lack of opportunity: Democrats have occupied the White House for sixteen of the last twenty-four years, and yet the decline of the middle class has only accelerated. Wall Street gets its bailouts, wages keep falling, and the free-trade deals keep coming.
With his trademark sardonic wit and lacerating logic, Frank lays bare the essence of the Democratic Party's philosophy and how it has changed over the years. A form of corporate and cultural elitism has largely eclipsed the party's old working-class commitment, he finds. For certain favored groups, this has meant prosperity. But for the nation as a whole, it is a one-way ticket into the abyss of inequality. In this critical election year, Frank recalls the Democrats to their historic goals-the only way to reverse the ever-deepening rift between the rich and the poor in America.
