Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Stanley Fish's brilliant column on anti-Hillary diatribes

I think Stanley Fish has hit the nail on its head when he describes the deep, irrational hatred too many individuals have for Hillary.
http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/all-you-need-is-hate/
While I was reading the blog entry the first thing I thought of was Sartre explanation for anti-Semitism. Sartre accurately explains that the anti-Semite is irrational. The anti-Semite hates the Jew for no rationale reason. Sartre famously remarked that if the Jew did not exist the anti-Semite would create him to hate. For the anti-Semite the Jew represents anything they despise. Similarly the anti-Hillary mob transfers each and every one of their peeves to Hillary. For those on the right, Hillary represents a Senator that espouses Socialist ideas and is a committed Marxist. They argue strongly that Hillary's current health care plan and the failed plan of President Clinton during the mid 1990s was Hillary's attempt at bringing Socialism to America through their health care system. The left says Hillary is in the hands of capitalist America because she was a partner at a large law firm that represented corporate interests and she sat on the corporate board of Walmart. I cannot continue to explain the irrationality of the anti-Hillary crowd but Stanley Fish is so eloquent I will not waste my words.

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