Let's face it, Hillary Clinton is the establishment candidate, which is why she will ultimately win. She is the most "moderate" candidate in the ballot, and will, ultimately, do the least damage to the status quo. Trump was able to steal a march on the GOP because it was in such disarray and allowed too many inflated egos on the stage. He understood that election coverage was tabloid entertainment, but when it comes to actual elections, people will turn to the most moderate, stable candidate.

I love that Bernie Sanders has had such a run because he has changed the conversation. He'll have significant influence over the Democratic platform just like the socialists did in 1932. Clinton, like FDR, will take those socialist concepts and mold then into centrist policies, because that is where the real center is in America now.

Franklin Roosevelt saved capitalism from itself (actually, both Roosevelts did), but he didn't throw it out. He understood that there has to be balance in the economy, and that it was seriously out of whack. The enemies of progress are more sophisticated, now, but the underlying yearning for fairness, which is the heart of the American experience, will win out, eventually. I think we're on the brink of that breakthrough.


A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich