I found the interview shallow - she seems to be floating some trial balloons like the "trickle-down identity" crap that of course Hillary never said, yet still I know the difference it made in DC in the 90's to suddenly have a huge leap in black participation/employment in all levels of government - not just token appointments at the top, but serious staffing, people I worked with. That would have been a much bigger breakthrough if Bush and then Obama (responding to the continual deficit scolds that only appear with Democratic presidents) hadn't rolled back federal employment and pretended to push things to state level where instead they'd be dropped.

And again that goddamned "neoliberal" term - hey, fucktards - even liberals have to understand money, Great Society's gone, the post-war boom years are gone, and while the economy sucks with all the temp and contract work and shift away from benefits, that means we really really really have to figure out something that works economically and societally, and in case you haven't noticed, there's been 0, or shall I say *negative*, progress in getting corporations to pay their share and bringing pro-worker innovations to light of day. Remember that election last year that was supposed to be all about change (much like the one 8 years before after they got drunk and ran the country & economy & military into a brick wall) - that whole "drain the swamp" that all the pundits were pitching? well it was Horseshit with a capital H, and it was from the first WaPo/NYTimes/Fox News/CNN/whatever blathering - all these bastards were doing was creating a "Horserace", which means Horseshit on Wheels, and the whole "Drain the Swamp" thing was never going to happen and there was never any kind of even infantile flow chart of how it would, and obviously Trump was going to choose Goldman Sachs and Betty Billionaire De Vos and all his other rich friends, as the Republicans have been getting billions to do from since forever, and none of the media could be bothered to read Trump's thousands of lawsuits and hundreds of bankruptcies, and his federal, state and local fines to figure that he's nothing near the McCain "straightshooter" or even the Bush "guy I'd like to have a beer with", but simply the most egotistical, hostile jackoff huckster to ever grace the national stage.

Back to the word - Hillary proposed how to pay for stuff, she proposed changes, ways to restructure to improve the job environment, ways to subsidize college tuition & drive down debt, ways to increase taxes on Wall Street without starting a new Tea Party revolution, etc., etc., etc. She was asking for body cams on cops, to keep them from abusing citizens in the name of protecting them - hardly "trickle down equality", thanks. 

Yes, gay marriage was a much easier step than giving women actual equality and nearer-equal pay and protection from rape & domestic violence and fair supportive healthcare and affordable childcare and keeping guns away from maniacs and a variety of core basic roots-up not trickle-down issues she was addressing. No, transgender bathrooms weren't high on the list, nor was the Keystone Pipeline.

No, HIllary wasn't talking about "change your lightbulb" - she was talking about public policy much more than most people, including her famous "going to destroy a lot of coal jobs" which was a call out for new job initiatives in Appalachia - $30 billion worth. And she was non-committal on ending fracking, which translates to "she thought it was a major brainfart that would cost a bazillion dollars with no benefit" that all the activitists wanted a statement on. Largely TPP as well, which was a needed pivot away from Chinese hegemony in Asia, despite whatever flaws. [omg, Warren's up pitching single payer now, as if red America's just looking for a version of socialized medicine they can digest and wrap their lonely arms around? we are clueless - looks like another round of taken to the woodshed for a good thrashing when we could simply let the Republicans hold the front pages doing their greedy over-reaching bastard routine they do so well]

Market intervention? The government's owned by Goldman Sachs and the real estate class now, the same ones who brought us the housing bubble and mortgage theft/robosigning. They have 2/3 of the state legislatures, both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court and the White House - and while we got a thin majority of presidential votes, they've worked the system to swamp every other constituency. How are we going to push some dream socialist market intervention past all the conservative gatekeepers who've been elected the last 20 years?

Hillary stood with immigrants, with blacks, with women, with a variety of groups that are traditionally shit on. She had a motherfucking $10 billion detailed proposal to deal with opioid addiction wreaking havoc on white trash communities in the heartland. While the new jerkoff-in-chief was proposing more war on drugs bullshit. Neoliberal? It simply means "not sitting on our asses dreaming the 60's will come back, nor trying to screw people for money the way the conservative classes with their Mercers and Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump are doing".

Emma Goldman used to say, "if I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution". I've had enough of Southern Baptists and Waldorf School and neocons and other types of scolds hanging around like buzzards waiting to pick the pieces off the diseased and dying. Even the climate change thing Klein gets wrong - the world *is* adapting, the rise of renewables *is* taking place much faster than anticipated, the anticipated multi-trillion dollar expense proposed by the left as the only way to stanch the Apocalypse Now seems to be *almost* as misguided as the complete denial from the right.

ETA - CO2 emissions are flat the last 2 1/2 years, and while CO2 is still growing  - as NY Times & Popular Mechanics rather hysterically proclaim the last few days with concern that the ocean CO2 sinks are saturated, that's certainly not the only option we have left, as this 1 small example of CO2 extraction/conversion notes (pushing for 1% removal of CO2 by 2025 - maybe realistic, maybe not, but with other efforts to lower emissions further and new manmade approaches to lower greenhouse gases, I really don't see why we have to play the Frankenstein/Luddite heralds of gloom, rather than serious positive pro-earth/pro-people activism, economics and scientific development. Republicans sell their false hateful optimism by the ton, that reeking can-do spirit of smarminess. Can't we counter with something hopeful?