Dick,
I don't think so. Hillary came from a midwestern middle income, politically
conservative family. Bill Clinton's family was southern and working class.
But Bill and Hillary were very intelligent, got educations in high quality
colleges and law schools where they made all sorts of connections, and they
used their intelligence, educations, and connections to build their wealth.
Neither of them inherited it.
Donald Trump's father emerged from the working class, but he accumulated a
huge amount of wealth in a variety of ways which included building housing
with government subsidies and doing business with the Mob in New York. The
family's political ties were with the New York Democratic Party.
Miriam
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Miriam:
It appears to me that this is a description of two very different people.
Trump's behavior illustrates to me his very common background and the
patterns shown by him as a result. Hilarious Hillary on the other hand came
from a very classy group of people who, from their lofty position, were
trained to believe that the knew while the rest of the world had to be led
and they were and are the people who could and would do it.
Richard
On 8/11/2016 1:36 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
First, I had the author's first name wrong. It's David K. Johnston.Party leadership is scurrying to the hills.
I paused in my reading of Dave Zirin's book to start Johnston's book.
What is special about it, is that the author quotes Trump at length as
he has responded in various situations. It is very clear that Johnston
is trying to convey something about Trump that I have sensed, but that
often gets lost in the typical political discussions of him versus
Clinton. Johnston illustrates, in detail, Trump's basic ignorance on
many subjects, his refusal to learn about issues when it is obvious
that he doesn't understand them and that they are pertinent to his
presidential candidacy, and his vindictiveness. This visciousness
toward people and groups is not something he's assuming for effect.
It's part of his personality, and it was part of his personality from
the time he was a small child. Because of his belligerance toward
others, he was eventually sent to military school, in the vain hope
that this kind of discipline would, "straighten him out". I read about
this previously in Antonio's book. So if you put the politics aside
for a minute and look at Hillary, you don't see this kind of
ignorance, inability to learn, visciousness, and inability to get
along with other people. I'm not talking about her politics or class
consciousness or value system. The more I hear and read, the more I
think that Trump is really pathological and putting someone like that
in power is truly dangerous. And that's why so much of the Republican
Miriam
