RE: ???? Is No one going to mention the nose dive clinton took at ground zero?
September 14, 2016 at 4:07 pm
(September 14, 2016 at 2:55 pm)Whateverist Wrote: I'd be interested in hearing your reasons for strongly rejecting Clinton, assuming it isn't simply a strong yearning for moving beyond a two party system. What I mean is, what is it about Hillary that you don't like other than her being grade A establishment?
While not directed toward me, I would like to reply to this question, Whateverist.
Being establishment is by itself a very strong point against Clinton. At the very least, Clinton reinforces the status quo, as would any other of rejected Republican candidates. I believe the reason partisanship has become so divisive is because both sides (establishment types) are stuck in the 20th century. They are fighting the last war.
The big government/small government debate is stupid. Government needs to be sufficiently empowered and funded to be effective in the most efficient and least intrusive way possible. I don't know whether that is "big" or "small". The debate between having the wealthy "pay their fair share" and lowering taxes to stimulate the economy is also outdated. It's about finding the sweet spot that provides the minimally necessary state revenue and maximizing capital in the private sector - not social engineering or protecting favored industries.
Both candidates talk about domestic employment but each still sees those problems through the lens of modern mass-production industrial structures and paradigms. Manufacturing jobs are gone for good. Pretty soon labor won't just be cheap, it will be free. Any job for which you can write instructions will be automated if it isn't already. What are the policies for an economy powered by robots and artificial intelligence? I don't know, but I do know that the entrenched interests behind both parties are heavily invested in preserving the obsolete economic infrastructure - unions, trade organizations, etc.
Both parties talk about reforming education but their solutions still rely on the old paradigm of producing uniformly equipped citizens to be workers and consumers by interchangeable teachers using standardized methods. 21st century education needs an organic model not a machine model.
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