Since the McCarthy era the very idea of SOCIALISM has been anathema
in the " respectable " ( ruling class controlled) news media . Like
millions of the baby boomer generation both Bill and Hillary Clinton
must have at least flirted with socialism and Karl Marx in the
tumultuous 60s that radicalized their generation.
The Clintons-and thousands of radicalized middle class youth- soon abandoned " utopian nonsense " for the ambitious world of American careerism . Once " successful " they moved far away even from New Deal working class oriented liberalism.
Hillary is probably reminded of her " radical youth betrayed " in the presence of " socialist " Democrat Bernie Sanders- a bit compromised himself in a party controlled-as Ralph Nader says-by corporate America.
Why did a certain Poe
character try to avoid his personified " better half " and conscience in
the tale " William Wilson " ?
Even American horror writer Stephen King- just Hillary's age- wrote about his disappointment with his 60s youth generation in " Hearts in Atlantis "
I think my generation is mostly spent politically. But we can still dream of a better world :
[ ....... about the baby boomer generation, specifically King's view that this generation (to which he belongs) failed to live up to its promise and ideals. Significantly, the opening epigraph of the collection is the Peter Fonda line from the end of Easy Rider: "We blew it." All of the stories are about the 60s and the war in Vietnam, and in all of them the members of that generation fail profoundly, or are paying the costs of some profound failure on their part.]
The Clintons-and thousands of radicalized middle class youth- soon abandoned " utopian nonsense " for the ambitious world of American careerism . Once " successful " they moved far away even from New Deal working class oriented liberalism.
Hillary is probably reminded of her " radical youth betrayed " in the presence of " socialist " Democrat Bernie Sanders- a bit compromised himself in a party controlled-as Ralph Nader says-by corporate America.
Even American horror writer Stephen King- just Hillary's age- wrote about his disappointment with his 60s youth generation in " Hearts in Atlantis "
I think my generation is mostly spent politically. But we can still dream of a better world :
[ ....... about the baby boomer generation, specifically King's view that this generation (to which he belongs) failed to live up to its promise and ideals. Significantly, the opening epigraph of the collection is the Peter Fonda line from the end of Easy Rider: "We blew it." All of the stories are about the 60s and the war in Vietnam, and in all of them the members of that generation fail profoundly, or are paying the costs of some profound failure on their part.]
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