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I’m not an American so I may have a different perspective on it than you, but is Hillary Clinton the left? From my perspective she sort of make Margret Tatcher
by moksly 5y ago
I’m not an American so I may have a different perspective on it than you, but is Hillary Clinton the left?
From my perspective she sort of make Margret Tatcher look like a socialist.
I do think most of us were fooled by wikileaks because it starter out being against the Iraq war. This was before snowden, back when people weren’t actually being serious when they joked about echelon listening in on us. It was also back when we, at least in Europe, figures that Russia was going to be our friend and it was sort of pre-information war. Apparently the information was was already well on its way, but we didn’t really know, and we didn’t take anyone who warned us serious. Us being the general public.
It was also a world where everything surrounding American politics, and to some extend all western politics, wasn’t always this us/them, left/right, blue/red nonsense that it is today. Anyone, from the most conservative to the most liberal who watched the wikileaks leaks on the journalist and the children being killed by drones (or maybe it was far away airplanes) were appalled by it, because it was simply appalling and back then, people cared more about wrong/right than their “team” looking good.
So I think it is understandable that people bought into wikileaks being genuine but these days… well… let’s just say that the west still hasn’t recovered from in the war on truthful information and that we are still struggling with trust issues and all the wonderful things like flat-earth, anti-vaccine and what not stupidity that’s running ever more rampant in our society. Among other things, because people like Assange showed us why we shouldn’t trust our institutions.
- Mediterraneo10 5y agoIn the 1990s, while first lady, Clinton served on a task force for public healthcare [0], and she wrote a book entitled It Takes a Village arguing for this and other state intervention. Regardless of how left she is compared to parties in other countries, this immediately placed her on the left of the USA's partisan divide. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_health_care_plan_of_1993 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_health_care_plan_of_19... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Takes_a_Village https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Takes_a_Village
- simiones 5y agoI'm sure that as a child she also believed sharing is caring. Her current political positions are significantly to the right of that.
- gknoy 5y agoWhen running for president, her policies were at least significantly left of the Republican party's platform. She's firmly in the authoritarian end of that axis, but also a bit to the left.
- badsectoracula 5y ago> I’m not an American so I may have a different perspective on it than you, but is Hillary Clinton the left? [..] From my perspective she sort of make Margret Tatcher look like a socialist. I remember a comment from some years ago that went like: America's left is Europe's right and America's right is Europe's batshit lunatics :-P It is all relative.