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Related: About this forumCamille Paglia asks hard questions about Clinton's support
Enough with the Hillary cult: Her admirers ignore reality, dream of worshipping a queen
Clinton voters overlook money lust, shadowy surrogates, sociopathic policy shifts, horrific overseas record. Why?
Camille Paglia
https://www.salon.com/2016/04/21/enough_with_the_hillary_cult_her_admirers_ignore_reality_dream_of_worshipping_a_queen/
What is it with the Hillary cult?
As a lifelong Democrat who will be enthusiastically voting for Bernie Sanders in next weeks Pennsylvania primary, I have trouble understanding the fuzzy rosy filter through which Hillary fans see their champion. So much must be overlooked or discountedfrom Hillarys compulsive money-lust and her brazen indifference to normal rules to her conspiratorial use of shadowy surrogates and her sociopathic shape-shifting in policy positions for momentary expedience.
Hillarys breathtaking lack of concrete achievements or even minimal initiatives over her long public career doesnt faze her admirers a whit. They have a religious conviction of her essential goodness and blame her blank track record on diabolical sexist obstructionists. When at last weeks debate Hillary crassly blamed President Obama for the disastrous Libyan incursion that she had pushed him into, her acolytes hardly noticed. They dont give a damn about international affairsall that matters is transgender bathrooms and instant access to abortion.
Im starting to wonder, given the increasing dysfunction of our democratic institutions, if the Hillary cult isnt perhaps registering an atavistic longing for monarchy. Or perhaps its just a neo-pagan reversion to idolatry, as can be felt in the Little Italy street festival scene of The Godfather, Part II, where devout pedestrians pin money to the statue of San Rocco as it is carried by in procession. There was a strange analogy to that last week, when Sanders supporters satirically showered Hillarys motorcade with dollar bills as she arrived at George Clooneys luxe fund-raiser in Los Angeles.
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Camille Paglia asks hard questions about Clinton's support (Original Post)
Babel_17
Apr 2016
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dchill
(38,502 posts)1. Why listen to Camille Paglia?
They don't listen to anybody else.
Human101948
(3,457 posts)2. Excellent reference to the Little Italy scene in the Godfather...Would the Mafia guy be Wall Street?
The whole meme about throwing money at strippers probably resonated only with those who don't know the etiquette of stripper tipping.
in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)3. Ugh...not Camille Paglia.
Clinton's bad, but going to Paglia isn't the way to make that point. That woman is insane.
Seriously - she is.
PEACE
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BERNIE