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... required to win the presidency, I regard liberal senators’ support for the Iraq War as a response to a given fraught political situation rather than an indication of their basic policy stance — like Obama’s off-again, on-again support for same-sex marriage. (Yes, I am saying that in deciding whether or not to support a candidate with whom I have disagreed on a fundamental issue, I am more at ease if it was a one-time political accommodation rather than... Why Progressives Shouldn’t Support Bernie - Barney Frank - POLITICO Magazine

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The Atlantic sums up nicely the situation by revealing that

In liberal circles, it now seems impossible to have cared deeply about human rights, to have cared about gay rights, and to have objected to gay marriage, even though that was the exact position of almost all liberals very recently.

Hillary Clinton herself was opposed to gay marriage until 2013.

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True, not on Iraq. Having myself voted against that terrible mistake, I agree that her position on the war is a legitimate concern for those of us on the left. The question then becomes whether this was a manifestation of a general tendency to support unwise military intervention, or the case of her joining every other Democratic senator who had serious presidential ambitions in voting for a war that the Bush-Cheney administration had successfully hyped as a necessary defense... Why Progressives Shouldn’t Support Bernie - Barney Frank - POLITICO Magazine

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Time summarized Hillary’s position on military action in 2014, stating:

As Secretary of State, Clinton backed a bold escalation of the Afghanistan war. She pressed Obama to arm the Syrian rebels, and later endorsed air strikes against the Assad regime. She backed intervention in Libya, and her State Department helped enable Obama’s expansion of lethal drone strikes.

The magazine goes on to explain that:

On at least three crucial issues—Afghanistan, Libya, and the bin Laden raid—Clinton took a more aggressive line than Gates, a Bush-appointed Republican.

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...e to suppress had a clue to the answer: Republicans fear that if Hillary Clinton is nominated fairly easily, while they are locked in a bitter, lengthy, ideologically charged series of primaries with a large cast of characters of varying degrees of plausibility, she gets a head start for the real fight. Why Progressives Shouldn’t Support Bernie - Barney Frank - POLITICO Magazine

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It’s almost like a sitcom at this point. We just need someone to stitch together a smooth introduction sequence.

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As skillful a controversialist as Bill Kristol is, he couldn’t help grinning. When we were discussing the 2016 campaign on “Morning Joe” last month, he expressed strong admiration for Bernie Sanders and pretended disbelief that I was not supporting him for president. But the ... Why Progressives Shouldn’t Support Bernie - Barney Frank - POLITICO Magazine

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...f Hillary Clinton is nominated fairly easily, while they are locked in a bitter, lengthy, ideologically charged series of primaries with a large cast of characters of varying degrees of plausibility, she gets a head start for the real fight. Why Progressives Shouldn’t Support Bernie - Barney Frank - POLITICO Magazine

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The idea is that by coalescing around Hillary, she’ll be afforded time to fortify her base in the Democratic Party while appealing to Independents and GOP voters who may swing if given incentive–attacks against GOP candidates, inevitable gaffes, etc.

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...hat is because neoliberalism was the first economic model in 200 years the upswing of which was premised on the suppression of wages and smashing the social power and resilience of the working class. If we review the take-off periods studied by long-cycle theorists – the 1850s in Europe, the 1900s and 1950s across the globe – it was the strength of organised labour that forced entrepreneurs and corporations to stop trying to revive outdated business models through wage cuts, and to innovate their way to a new form of cap... The end of capitalism has begun

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Kondratiev wave theory holds that every 40-60 years there are intervals of high growth in specific sectors followed by relatively slow growth.

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I was taught this in first year geography (I don’t remember the course). Is this still an accepted theory?

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... the Search for Love, which found that, in the words of a peer reviewer, "the rate of bereavement amongst prime ministers was exceptionally high," somewhere around half of all British prime ministers. That was much higher than the estimated rate for the population as a whole, and the bereavement rates for Cabinet members also ran consistently higher than the general public. What could be going on here? Is this simply politics imitating Shakespeare, or is there some causa... Absent fathers: Political leaders like Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, and Paul Ryan often develop coping mechanisms in childhood that may make them effective leaders.

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The rate of bereavement–loss of a parent or sibling–in the UK population is somewhere around 3%.

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...He spent his entire life, including his presidency, careening between attempts to live up to H.W.'s impossible expectations and efforts to garishly repudiate them. And it hardly bears recounting that President Obama built his political persona around a search for his absent dad. Absent fathers: Political leaders like Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, and Paul Ryan often develop coping mechanisms in childhood that may make them effective leaders.

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Best encapsulated in the title of his memoirs, “Dreams From My Father” which goes over Obama’s coming to terms with race and identity largely through the absence of his father.

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...politics is overflowing with stories of absent fathers, alcoholic fathers, neglectful fathers, and untimely deceased ones. Indeed, one of the more interesting questions raised by Ryan's biography is: Why do so many of our politicians have daddy issues? Absent fathers: Political leaders like Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, and Paul Ryan often develop coping mechanisms in childhood that may make them effective leaders.

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The New York Times would pick up this discussion 2 years later in a piece titled “Fathers, Sons and the Presidency”:

TO look back through the years is to see presidents in rebellion against their fathers and presidents in thrall to them, presidents trying to be bigger and better than the fathers who let them down (Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan) as well as presidents living out the destinies that their fathers scripted for them (John F. Kennedy, William Howard Taft). It’s to behold the inevitably fraught father-son dynamic playing out on the gaudiest stages, with the most profound consequences.

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