Glenn Greenwald's Unbridled Enthusiasm For A Hillary Clinton Presidency

Hillary Clinton chows down with typical struggling America, a Mr. Lloyd Blankfein who works at Goldman Sachs

Irony dripping from his fingertips, Glenn Greenwald pointed out that there is genuine excitement at the prospect of a President Hillary Clinton, even above and beyond gender politics. "There are pockets of vibrant political excitement stirring in the land over a Hillary Clinton presidency," he wrote. "There are posters being made, buttons being appended, checks being prepared, appointments being coveted. The joint, allied, synergistic constituencies of plutocracy and endless war have their beloved candidate. And it’s really quite difficult to argue that their excitement and affection are unwarranted." And careerism... political/corporate revolving door careerism is at the heart of the whole enterprise.

It’s easy to strike a pose of cynicism when contemplating Hillary Clinton’s inevitable (and terribly imminent) presidential campaign. As a drearily soulless, principle-free, power-hungry veteran of DC’s game of thrones, she’s about as banal of an American politician as it gets. One of the few unique aspects to her, perhaps the only one, is how the genuinely inspiring gender milestone of her election will (following the Obama model) be exploited to obscure her primary role as guardian of the status quo.

That she’s the beneficiary of dynastic succession-- who may very well be pitted against the next heir in line from the regal Bush dynasty (this one, not yet this one)-- makes it all the more tempting to regard #HillaryTime with an evenly distributed mix of boredom and contempt. The tens of millions of dollars the Clintons have jointly “earned” off their political celebrity-- much of it speaking to the very globalists, industry groups, hedge funds, and other Wall Street appendages who would have among the largest stake in her presidency-- make the spectacle that much more depressing (the likely candidate is pictured above with Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein at an event in September).

But one shouldn’t be so jaded. There is genuine and intense excitement over the prospect of (another) Clinton presidency. Many significant American factions regard her elevation to the Oval Office as an opportunity for rejuvenation, as a stirring symbol of hope and change, as the vehicle for vital policy advances.

You should read Greenwald's whole post. He singles out as Hillary's big boosters Wall Street, the Israel Lobby, Interventionalists (and the military industrial complex), old school neocons (especially if the GOP puts up Rand Paul). I'd be remiss if I didn't take this opportunity to remind you that we don't need to settle on a lesser-of-two-evils scenario. Early Money Is Like Yeast.