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Hillary Clinton: July and American Distaste

hillary clinton: Therefore, it was disappointing to read that he would adopt progressive talking points around issues of identity and minority candidates to try and elucidate upon the visceral dislike Hillary Clinton engenders for so many, according to Toronto Star. The distaste that I and others I know have for Mrs. Sat., July 30, 2016 Re: The mystery of American distaste for Hillary Clinton, July 25Re: First lady fires up Democrats, July 26The mystery of American distaste for Hillary Clinton, July 25As a trained political economist with graduate-level qualifications, columnist Thomas Walkom oftentimes presents refreshing arguments that run counter to the current economic orthodoxy. Clinton has absolutely nothing to do with her gender and her professional attainment, and has everything to do with her embrace of neoliberal, economic orthodoxy. Article Continued Below This has manifested itself in the neoliberal paradigm over the last 40 years, characterized by retrenchment of the welfare state, privatization of public assets, deregulation of economic sectors favouring capital flows and accumulation, including free trade deals, gutting of labour regulations giving rise to precarious employment, and a moral ethic of personal responsibility couched in language of self-fulfilment and self-actualization through therapeutic discourses. Beginning with the Powell Memo and The Crisis of Democracy report from the first of half of the 1970s, U.S. and global capitalists embarked upon a program to reassert their class power in opposition to the New Left student movement, militant labour activity, and a broader countercultural zeitgeist. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.