Timothy Willis Sanders

1. People really do not understand how much a billion is

2. A lot of conservatives are so fundamentally self obsessed that they can not discuss this topic within its proper scope.

Like, it doesn’t matter that we are discussing global economic systems that impact millions of people all over the world, that the majority of exploited people that allow for a billionare to have a billion dollars are sweat shop workers and child labor in china and formerly colonized countries.

They can only approach the topic in terms of “YOU are lazy or unskilled, you shouldnt complain, you should help yourself, you should get a better job/donate to charity if you care so much”

you indeed bring up problems with how many are willing to consider Clinton, and that the structuring of womanhood as a series of machines controlling flows of violence, of signified by a circle of signs specifically limiting the expanse of subjectivity women are entitled to, is a structure difficult for Clinton to escape. but considering her position in regards to wealth, to politics, to whiteness, and her specific neoliberalism, collapsing critique of her into this structure is a specific sort of ideological turn that has been vital to her campaign.

the specific construction of merit as a manner of judging bodies as fit or unfit, and how Hillary is a candidate who has been involved in politics for a great deal of time, favors her against a reactionary actor such as Trump. the Democratic party has been running on a platform of maintaining a specific neoliberal order codified over the last two decades, one that began in the transition from Reagan to Bill Clinton through George HW Bush. the non-event of the Gulf War as the beginning of a specific globalizing push by America, one meaningfully different from the cloaked intervention that characterized America during the Cold War, is being torn apart by contradiction and the strain that the concept of the globe that results from globalization places upon itself. and whereas Trump is relying upon the microfascism of neoliberalism coalescing into an outright American fascist movement, Clinton is constructing herself as a candidate of the American global project, the specific neocolonialism that her politics rely upon.

2. the argument that mainstream politics isn’t nearly as left as leftists need it to be, is an ideological argument that ignores the historical problems which caused us to be a center-of-right nation in the first place, it also devalues our constitutional framework that rightfully prevents us from leaning too far in either direction.

3. the notion that Hillary hasn’t spent her life trying to push the country leftward is a false one, driven in part by males threatened by a woman in power. the left and the right are obsessed with her perceived faults, but only one side chooses to remain ignorant of her progressive successes.