Previous socialist worked in a real environment of material shortages. Today, however, we live in a world of vast material surplus, such that even the poor can be as fat as a king. Thus the socialist now require human pathologies to remain in power as the “helper” to ‘poop’ in spirit.
So Clinton was actually working, and in DemThink, doing a good job, not as a poor model, but a good job as a model of what to do to be poor.
Mitt and the Republican party don’t get it.
They are reactionary in their approach.
This is to be expected as very few study socialism, it’s language, and themes.
Reagan new from coming from them, and fighting communist as head of the actors guild in the ‘40’s, a time of extreme penetration of the industry. Further Reagan had good fudemental training as a bradcaster and actor in the power of words and symbolism.
Mitt has no like education in this. He can play defense, but is untrained, and even though long lived in Massachusetts. In this case it might be said of Mitt that he has been well educated poorly. This is a typical fault of those who’s time and attention have been mainly economic and not political.
more coffee, less baseball