Figuring Out Hillary, the Rush Limbaugh Way, and The Right Way

RUSH LIMBAUGH HAS HILLARY CLINTON all figured out. Just ask him. Hillary, you see, is exactly the opposite of the person she pretends to be. Everything about her, including, presumably, her make up, is a fraud. In the United States of Appearances, appearance trumping substance might in truth not be at all so uncommon, but Hillary takes it to a higher level. She is, points out El Rushbo, a woman of enormous wealth who seeks even greater wealth, and plans to raise two point five billion dollars with which to purchase the American presidency. All the while, Rush reminds us, she portrays herself as a champion of the "common man", or something of the sort. Also, every event in which she is the featured attraction is entirely orchestrated, down to the last photographer and crowd member. And so forth, and so on. Well, the truth is, Rush Limbaugh is quite correct. The question is: so in the hell what? Isn't that the way its supposed to work? Don't all politicians pose for the cameras, orchestrate their own events, and put on airs? Don't all of us, down to our tatoos, necklaces, and earrings, try to put out some sort of image? According to Rush, Hillary Clinton is nothing other than a phony liberal, a hypocrite, doing one thing and pretending to do another. But Rush really hasn't figured her out at all. The truth is far simpler: Hillary, quite simply, is not a liberal at all. She is a conservative, in a country in which there are two types of people; conservatives, aka "democrats", and ultra conservatives, aka "republicans". Real liberals wouldn't be afriad of words like "socialism" and "liberalism". They wouldn't feel the urgent need to replace those terms with the bland pedestrian word "progressive". And above all, they wouldn't avoid coming right out and encouraging the American economy to take direct government action to redistribute the wealth from the wealthy to the poor, as a means of expanding the free market by expanding the number of people involved in it. Since 1980 (R.Reagan, neoliberalism) we've been redistributing wealth towards the wealthy. When a real liberal comes along, even Rush Limbaugh, of all people, might be able to recognize it. Don't count on it though. In the United States of Appearances, a real liberal would likely be entirely ignored, run out of town, or well disguised, sort of a reverse Hillary Clinton.