{"id":21257,"date":"2015-07-15T13:46:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T17:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=21257"},"modified":"2015-07-15T13:48:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T17:48:21","slug":"hillary-clintons-economic-story-stuff-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/07\/15\/hillary-clintons-economic-story-stuff-happens\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton\u2019s Economic Story: Stuff Happens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Campaign For America’s Future<\/em> has an excellent article Hillary Clinton\u2019s Economic Story: Stuff Happens<\/a>. Normally, I don’t like to quote too extensively from an article because I would rather you read the original to give the authors the clicks that they deserve. In this case, the message is so important, that I cannot take the chance you won’t read the original. There is still more to be read in the original than I am quoting here, as the ellipses indicate.<\/p>\n

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\nA framing speech can\u2019t and shouldn\u2019t go into policy details, and Clinton pledged a series of speeches would fill in the missing text. But a framing speech should tell a clear story: about how we got in the hole we are in, who drove us there, how do we get out, and what leaders and movements will lead the way.<\/p>\n

Here, Clinton\u2019s speech was disappointing. The problem, she argued, is most Americans see \u201can economy that still isn\u2019t delivering for them\u2026 It still seems, to most Americans that I have spoken with, that it is stacked for those at the top.\u201d The \u201cbasic bargain\u201d \u2013 work hard and get ahead \u2013 \u201chas been eroded.\u201d Note the passive voice.
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We have been victimized by inexorable economic forces \u2013 technology, global trade. Better ideas and policy can fix it. Completely absent from the frame is any sense of the systematic war waged by corporations and the right wing to win the battle of ideas, flood money into our politics and rig the rules of the economy to their benefit. They rigged monetary policy and fiscal policy, global trade rules, labor and wage laws, government investment, deregulation, privatization, global policing \u2013 all reinforcing the effort to weaken workers, drive down wages, and capture more of the profits at the top. And then they invested a minute portion of those profits to buy both parties and corrupt our democracy.
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\nOmitting the reality that our policies have been systematically and purposefully rigged to favor the few \u2013 and that our politics have been corrupted in that pursuit \u2013 both misleads Americans, and weakens that agenda\u2019s appeal.
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\nProgressives are winning the economic argument among Democrats. As Clinton shows, the era of small government is over. Every Democratic candidate summons us to a new era of activist government. But the question of this populist moment is who will speak truth not to power, but to the American people. Clinton is calling people to a policy discussion. Sanders is rousing them for a political revolution. She\u2019s one of the best qualified candidates in the history of the Republic and an overwhelming favorite to win the nomination. But he is telling a far clearer story of why working people are struggling in this wealthy country and what they must do to take it back.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This article does a much better job of explaining exactly what is missing from Clinton’s speech than my previous post about the article Clinton\u2019s Speech on \u201cThe Economy\u201d: Where\u2019s the Beef?<\/a>. The two articles identify many of the same issues. The current article has more details where they are needed and fewer details where they are not needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Campaign For America’s Future has an excellent article Hillary Clinton\u2019s Economic Story: Stuff Happens. Normally, I don’t like to quote too extensively from an article because I would rather you read the original to give the authors the clicks that they deserve. In this case, the message is so important, that I cannot take the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21260,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21257\/revisions\/21260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}