Thursday, September 18, 2008

incendeary comment # 1

one of my opinions on Hillary Clinton...

women who traded in their feminism to marry investment bankers felt like they had a chance to redeem themselves in a karmic sense by voting for an otherwise moderate candidate.

5 comments:

gyra said...

bah! i'm not going to bite if you're going to be that lazy.

are you really equating marrying an investment banker to selling out one's feminism (and apparently by association all other liberal/progressive/radical positions?). come on, you're not that much of a reductionist! you're creating a fictional character and extrapolating her voting reasoning to explain a phenomenon you made up yourself.

punditry!

De.Corday said...

I'm saying in a snarky way that living in sprawl necessitates a value compromise. come on, its not *that* radical.

she was a way for not-radical people to feel radical for voting for a not-radical candidate.

She was offering the middle class a way to ease its conscience.

gyra said...

i think i made a fundamental error in parsing what was modifying what in your original. 'scuse.

if obama wins, i'll be interested to see how that plays out. because i think he gets some votes in exactly the same way, but also has (had?) the bit about expecting people to get involved. insisting on active work from supporter-citizens, rather than the abdication of power to a leader ("i'll fight for you," for example). that emphasis is very unusual; it's appealing but i wonder whether a significant body of supporters will really step after he's elected or, having eased its conscience, rest easy now its representative is in power.

De.Corday said...

well I also like to think that a vote for obama *isn't* a vote for a hard-line moderate, the way a vote for clinton would have been. But i could unfortunately be wrong.

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