This election is the gift that just keeps on giving. Just as the endless drip-drip-drip of the Hillary Clinton email scandal has finally saturated us, as we finally been shown enough to recognize that she and hers lied, repeatedly, and deliberately worked to hide that which should not be hidden, we get a new twofer. First, Clinton spoke her true mind at a fundraiser:
You know, just to be grossly generalist, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of these folks, they are irredeemable. But thankfully they are not America.
The obvious problem with this statement, as far as Clinton is concerned, is not its veracity or its exaggeration. It’s the public exposure of a candid moment. Some have tried to spin this as Clinton pandering to rich liberals, who go all hoo-rah when they hear such inflammatory rhetoric. Spare us. This is what she really thinks. She is echoing Obama’s “bitter clingers” quote:
It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
You see, there really are two Americas. There are the rulers and the ruled. There are the people who know better and feel their duty and obligation is to impose their better knowledge upon us. And there are the hoi polloi, the unwashed masses, the bitter clingers, the deplorables. They don’t matter, except as a mass of faceless bodies to be governed and managed. These are the people who, unlike their statist brethren, don’t get that they should grant unlimited power to their betters. So, they must be deceived and misdirected so that their betters can get into office.
This, of course, brings us to the second gift of the weekend: the video of Clinton being, literally, dragged off her feet by Secret Service agents after she suffered some sort of episode. The initial explanation of “overheating” was followed up by a prepared statement about a previous diagnosis of pneumonia and coupled with a “I’m feeling great” photo-op. This comes on the heels of all sorts of mystery about her health – a persistent and poorly-explained cough, a candid admission of increased “histamine load” (considered troubling enough by the NY Times to warrant redaction of the word “load” from their coverage), and a history that includes blood clots, a broken elbow, a concussion, and deep vein thrombosis.
The medical facts aren’t the real issue here. The secrecy is, because it further demonstrates a pattern. Clinton is asking Americans to trust her enough to make her the most powerful person on the planet, but she won’t trust Americans with information about herself and her doings. The private email server, the subsequent deletions, the smashing of Blackberries with hammers, the stonewalling of investigations, and the outright lies demonstrated that she wanted to work without supervision or accountability to the citizens that she purportedly serves. Nearly 9 months without a press conference further suggests she has little interest in showing the nation who she is and what she plans. And that’s just the recent stuff. Her history of furtiveness is as long as her career.
It’s all dismissed as baseless allegations and a “vast right-wing conspiracy,” and countered with a laughable assertion that:
I’m the most transparent public official in modern times.
Lest someone try to parse that by casting aspersions on every other modern public official, I simply offer Congressman Justin Amash, who posts on social media his reasons for every single vote he makes in Congress. THAT, Ms. Clinton, is how you do transparency.
Clinton’s behavior, recent and of old, paints a pretty clear picture. She shows none of the humility of someone who understands that political service is “service.” Her history, instead, paints a portrait of someone who sees political office as power and autocracy. She’s abetted in this by a mewling, compliant and complicit press corps that fawns over her the way teenyboppers fawn over the latest boy band.
Clinton must be thrilled by the expansion of executive power under Bush and Obama. It sets the stage for her to rule as she wishes, rather than be the head of one of three equal branches of government with whom she’d have to work and compromise. Her behavior, her words, her history, all depict a woman who wishes to be an autocrat rather than a President. Should she achieve her goal, all her lies and secrecy will have been vindicated and reinforced. She’ll have no reason to exhibit restraint or respect for her constituents, and she’ll do whatever she wants, our rights, liberties and desires notwithstanding.
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She really scares me and if she does get elected president I don’t know what’s going to happen to this country.