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In 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
by Mediterraneo10 5y ago
In 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.