Re: [Marxism] Clinton: Say it loud, I'm white and I'm proud

["Fred Feldman" <ffeldman@bellatlantic.net>]

Clinton said:
"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an
interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press
article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working
Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both
states who had not completed college were supporting me."

"There's a pattern emerging here," she said. [Italics Mine]
http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/05/07/race-again.aspx



And I commented:
Notice how much more "working, hard working" the decent white Americans who
can't stomach Obama are than everybody else -- including (it really goes
without saying) Black workers and white workers who are attracted to Obama
as an advocate and symbol of "change."


Further comments:
Also her idea of a "broader coalition" than the one supporting Obama
consists basically of different types of white people: seniors, blue-collar
workers, those with less formal education, women, plus Other. The Obama
electoral coalition is much narrower, according to her. This is because it
includes a minority of white people except among youth (whom she no longer
considers worth mentioning at all because of their racial treachery and
apostasy to the Clintons in the primaries), and because it includes Black
people as a central component (even though it also includes quite
substantial numbers of white workers and others). 

According to Clintonian principles of triangulation, the presence of Black
people in a central rather than marginalized role can only narrow a
coalition. That is because it turns off the decent people, the "hard-working
people," the "people who play by the rules," the normal people, the average
people, the American heartland (i.e., the white people).

Still more interesting is her assumption (clear to me at least) that the
candidates should be selected by the majority of white people. Black people
can rally behind their Jesse Jackson in the primaries if they wish, but
their role in selecting a candidate must not be decisive. 

Once the white people have selected their candidates, the Blacks can come in
to vote for the white candidate they think is less hostile, or, if they
prefer, the white candidate they think is more "Black."

Basically what Clinton is fighting for is a basic historical principle of
white majority rule under US "democracy": White Majority Rule. When the
majority of white people is denied their pick, this democracy has been
violated.

It should be remembered that Hilary Clinton, like her lifelong companion,
has been moving to the right since 1972, and is still doing so.  How far
they can go before they finally drop dead is anybody's guess,in my opinion.
Fred Feldman


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