Reply #87: Clinton good. Clinton good. Peace and prosperity. Clinton haters bad. Nafta schmafta.

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This is precisely the problem: the ranting and shouting of the various factions have driven the assumptions of her into people's skulls to such a degree that people have a firm conviction no matter what. She can suck up to the right and vote for as many trade giveaways and bellicose pronouncements about foreign countries as she likes and still be a tireless fighter for workers and an enemy of war.

It works both ways, and this is something she and her husband will NEVER learn: they can suck up to the right as much as they please, but they'll still be hated. The only thing they accomplish by this is dragging the country farther to the right. Things pass a certain undefinable threshold after which there's no changing most people's perceptions, and they've both long-since crossed it.