A Brief History of Bill Clinton

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF BILL CLINTON


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SOCGRAD MINI-LECTURES

by

T. R. Young
The Red Feather Institute


 

100 years from now, books will still be written on
Mr. Clinton and the Impeachment Process.

History will not be kind either to Clinton or the
Republican Caucus in the House of Congress.

Mr. Clinton will be adjudged a fine president by
those who ignore the global political economy in
which his presidency is located.

A partisan reading of this epoch will credit Clinton
with the things which now make him one of the most
popular presidents since opinion polls were invented.

Low rates of inflation; low interest rates; high
employment rates; balancing of the federal budget;
an exploding Dow-Jones Index; declining crime rates;
and for the mass media an ever-fresh supply of
scandal and scatology with which to entertain those
alienated from the corridors of power.

A more critical reading of his Presidency will also
credit Clinton with sharply increasing bifurcations in
wealth and power reversing a trend since WWII in which
America moved toward racial, gender and class equalities.

A more critical reading of the Clinton presidency will
look at the effects of American Foreign Policy on the
health and wealth of the rest of the world...that story
reads a bit differently from those who praise and pled
for mercy and forgiveness for Clinton.

Clinton is the Chief Executive of the Global World Economy
with Mr. Blair, Prime Minister of Great Britain as his
Viceroy.

In that capacity, he has helped Transnational Capital move
a great many high-wage jobs in North America and Europe to
3rd World countries. Clinton has quietly continued the erosion
of organized labor began so dramatically by Mr. Reagan.
Lower take-home wages, fewer fringe benefits, more temporary
places, out-sourcing of supplies, 'reform' of social security
and cut-backs in the safety net for those who are marginal
to the profit structure of private capital...all these are
legacy of Clinton's tenure in office.

If one has the 3rd World as linch-pin in one's loyalties,
Clinton seems, on the face of it, a kindly CEO...women in the
3rd world can now find direct connection to the means of
production and break the gender bonds of patriarchy.

Better jobs, better food, better homes, better transport, better
schools, better communications and an end to the social prisons of
caste and color.

This is the progressive face of Global Capitalism
and is not to be lightly weighed by those of us who quest for
social and economic justice. This too is part of the History
of Bill Clinton...in his CEO role.

But there is also, the vast disruptions of land tenure as the
best land in the world is transferred from staples food production
to export crops...

Better agriculture through chemistry means the pollution of all the
rivers in Taiwan. It means dangerous levels of pesticides in the
bodies of farm workers and their families. It means farm workers
grow the food to fatten the cattle and consumers in rich capitalist
countries while their own children are malnourished.

Better communications mean better ways to colonize the consciousness
of voters and reshape desire in the souls of men, women and children.
Better communication also includes the world wide web and a great
expansion of markets for Western goods, Western Music, Western
sports and Western ideologies....an uncertain legacy.

Better communications, especially the WWW, means better readings
of history; better judgments of leaders; better understandings of
crime and of war.

Better transportation means better ways to move troops to put down
ethnic, religious, socialist and populist revolutions whereever they
threaten the free movement of oil, consumer goods, investments and
profits of Transnational Corporations.

Better schools means better technicians to make and manage the global
economy. It also means higher rates of literacy and empowerment of
the minds and souls of those who can read, write and speak of the
problems which beset their sisters and brothers in the 3rd World.

In all this, Clinton's sexual exploits will be threaded; historians
will treat this tactfully but emphatically. Whatever Presidents, Popes,
Kings and Dictators have done before Clinton in the way of using
subjects for impersonal sexual gratification, Clinton will be recorded
as Icon of the Sexual Predator...of Political Perversion. He will be
used as an Object Lesson whenever extortion of sexual favors occurs
in politics, business, education and religion until the end of history.

In a word, his popular legacies in Domestic Politics will fade as
History gives ever more weight to the adverse effects of the USA and the Bloc of Seven in the World Economy.

                            sic fugit the promise of Youth, TR

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And what of Clinton himself?

He will finish his term in office.

Hiliary will dump him and run for the
Senate where she and Ted Kennedy lead
liberal causes.

Clinton will use his persuasive powers
to sell phone and credit cards for AT&T.

He and O.J. Simpson will find God on
Sundays and pray together on
the six legal Holidays...

Betimes, they will enjoy a great deal
of popularity among women who later
talk to Jenny, Springer and Larry King.

Women will bring flowers to his grave
until new sexist idols are found.