The 2008 US presidential campaign was the best soapie on TV. The 2016 season of that show looks even better.
Back in 2008, Hillary Clinton’s campaign rhetoric intrigued me. It was all about the middle-class and helping the middle class. No working part class warriors today in the main strain of the Democratic Party. The 2016 campaign is the same.
The median voter is a middle-class voter. The median voter is the swinging voter or the independent voter in American terminology. All parties go after this voter if they want to win elections.
Director’s Law of public expenditure is that public expenditure is used primary for the benefit of the middle class, and is financed with taxes which are borne in considera class war rhetoric in a campaign announcement is mainly for the benefit of the left of the party to discourage primary runs by Sen Warren, in particular ble part by the poor and the rich because the median voter comes from the middle-class.
Presidential primary and general election debates in 2016 will be about how things were getting harder for the middle-class and the Republican or Democratic candidate pitching for votes will stand up for the middle-class better than their competition in the presidential primary or general election.
Morning radio in New Zealand, the state owned broadcaster, interviewed one of their political contacts about Hillary’s announcement. His suggestions were her were go left, young Hillary, go left. He wanted her to imitate the policies of the left-wing Democratic Party potential candidate Senator Warren and significantly increase the minimum wage.
At no time did our intrepid reporter on 9 to Noon ask whether this go left political strategy would increase the chances of Hillary winning or have any relevance under a Republican-controlled Senate and House of Representatives or help the Democratic Party win back the House.
Republican-control of Congress will be a strong incentive to Hillary to go to the centre if she wants to have any chance of implementing any of her policies. The class war rhetoric in her campaign announcement is mainly to neutralise the chances of Senator Warren contesting the primaries. Oddly enough, the priorities of Senator Warren also focus on the concerns of the middle-class voters such as about student loans rather than paying the rent and buying groceries.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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