{"id":45823,"date":"2016-08-11T11:36:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T15:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=45823"},"modified":"2016-08-11T11:41:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T15:41:38","slug":"the-good-news-about-hillary-maybe-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=45823","title":{"rendered":"The Good News About Hillary (Maybe) Winning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Ferndale, WA<br \/>\nAugust 11, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>Despite all my complaining about how corrupt Hillary is, there&#8217;s good<br \/>\nreason to be joyful should she somehow prevail in November.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=45564\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=45564<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clinton is clearly the Establishment candidate in this election. That means<br \/>\nthe mini-revolutions in the two major parties that saw the takeover of the<br \/>\nRepublican Party by Trump and the near-victory of Sanders within the<br \/>\nDemocratic Party will have the potential to coalesce around a few shared<br \/>\nissues once Hillary takes office.<\/p>\n<p>This is what I wanted to happen this year: the failure of leadership among<br \/>\nthose who emerged to lead the Tea Party faction of the right (Trump) and<br \/>\nthe Occupy Wall Street faction on the left (Sanders) means that my vision<br \/>\nfor a new political party will have to wait until at least 2020.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32281\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32281<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the range of substantial claims against Hillary, Bill and the Clinton<br \/>\nFoundation are enormous and will serve as a significant constraint on their<br \/>\nability to govern if victorious as well as a rallying cry for those who are against<br \/>\nThe Establishment.<\/p>\n<p>The Clintons are destined to be caught up in endless lawsuits, damage control<br \/>\nefforts and news spinning from day one of their return to the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>Not only will they have the immense baggage of their first two terms as well as all<br \/>\nthe new scandals that have emerged from Hillary&#8217;s time as Secretary of State<br \/>\nand her DNC manipulations during this year&#8217;s campaign, they will be faced with<br \/>\nthe legacy of the Obama years which have been nothing short of a catastrophe<br \/>\nfor the &#8220;progressive&#8221; left that Clinton represents.<\/p>\n<p>It will take highly repressive measures for Hillary to implement gun control,<br \/>\nObamacare, global warming related environmental regulations and other<br \/>\nparts of the Democratic platform. Such efforts are bound to generate enormous<br \/>\nresistance with the high likelihood of social unrest.<\/p>\n<p>With a seriously wounded economic system, enormous debt, major international<br \/>\ncrises and a neocon approach to foreign affairs that guarantees more costly wars,<br \/>\nthere is little reason to hope that Clinton&#8217;s commitment to the Bush\/Obama focus on<br \/>\nUS\/NATO hegemony, globalization and (un)free trade deals like TPP will succeed.<\/p>\n<p>That will provide a golden opportunity for the millions of disaffected independents,<br \/>\nlibertarians, anti-war leftists and others to find common ground on the few issues<br \/>\nthey agree on to continue the battles fought this year with Sanders and Trump<br \/>\nleading the charge.<\/p>\n<p>The turmoil in Turkey is a perfect example of how the Neocon inspired approach<br \/>\nof foreign policy embraced by Obama and Hillary that was a direct continuation of<br \/>\nthe Bush years is destined for further failure and will have to be changed:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45266.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45266.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New leaders have emerged who will be the future face of a saner America. Tulsi<br \/>\nGabbard of Hawaii is destined to play a major role on the national scene. Rand<br \/>\nPaul is likely to be there to join her. Hopefully Cynthia McKinney will be recognized<br \/>\nfor her courage and integrity to join the ranks of a generation who will be forced<br \/>\nby reality to abandon imperial designs, regime change, a total embrace of the<br \/>\nnational security state and other elements of American Exceptionalism that have<br \/>\nbeen used to justify implementing a Pax Americana new world order.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=24757\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=24757<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Trump seemingly imploding with his self-destructive comments and miscues,<br \/>\nit is not inconceivable that the highly corrupt and truth challenged Hillary Clinton<br \/>\nwill win the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>For the reasons stated above, despite the danger to the Republic she represents,<br \/>\nthere is some small room to be hopeful that it might actually be good news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}