Clinton is a lot of things.
But she's not ultra-liberal.
If anything, she could be considered a conservative Democrat these days, trying to please the swing voters.
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-Hedge
That's a great point. It was the Clintons back in the '90s that effectively destroyed the democratic party's fidelity to the common working man. By courting corporate interests over and to the excluxion of the interests of blue collar america, they practically drove middle america into the arms of the republicans.
By this I mean, the democratic party disenfranchised the middle class voters on economic issues. The republicans utilized social issues like abortion, homosexuality, religiosity, illegal aliens to warm up to these disenfranchised people.
The true work of genius of the republican power play was to convince middle class america that economic circumstances in light of the free market are as inevitable as the tides. Therefore the republican economic policy which crushes unions, defangs anti-trust laws, emasculates any business regulation and lowers or destroys progressive income tax rates was portrayed as a fact of economic life for every american. If you're feeling disenfranchised, then gosh darn it take action on these social issues imposed upon you by nefarious liberals, activist judges and hollywood actors.
Or not.
