For Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, Politics is Personal
by TED RALL
Could the clash between Clintonian realism and Sandersian idealism come down to personal history?
Hillary Clintons sales pitch to Democrats is simple:
Get real! The Republicans controlling Congress (and wholl likely still be in charge in 2017) wont even allow President Obama to fill the late Antonin Scalias vacant seat on the Supreme Court. There is no way in hell, she says, that these intransigent SOBs will pass pie-in-the-sky bills like Bernie Sanders proposal to replace Obamacare an insurance company-friendly scheme originally conceived by a right-wing think tank, which Republicans now call socialistic with Bernie Sanders Medicare for All, which would eliminate insurers in an actually socialistic way.
Hillary says she wont make promises she cant keep. Maybe that, as opposed to the mountains of cash she collects from Big Pharma and the piles of dough she rakes in from health insurance giants, is why she thinks the United States cant join the rest of the First World by creating a universal coverage healthcare system.
Or maybe its personal. Hillary cant possibly imagine what its like to live paycheck to paycheck. Should she or Bill ever contract some nasty disease, the Clintons$110 million nest egg can easily cover the cost of the fanciest doctors.
more (interesting read)
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/18/for-bernie-sanders-and-hillary-clinton-politics-is-personal/