The more research I do on the subject, the more I realize that Clinton’s ruthlessness and her psychosis-like need to be president were her undoing. The emails sent back-and-forth from her top advisors going all the way back to 2007, demonstrate Hillary’s unquenchable thirst for power; her psychosis-like need– not desire–to be president. It was her campaign that first contemplated a racial attack on the president; it was her campaign that started the birther movement; it was her campaign that created the hateful fiction that lead to paranoia among working class whites that President Obama was not an American and possibly a Muslim (God forbid).
Not learning anything from 2007, her strategy among her top advisors was to continue this ruthlessness, especially when Senator Sanders ideas began to catch on. So instead of debating Senator Obama and Senator Sanders on the issues, she chose to adopt their rhetoric and to character assassinate. I don’t know if these ideas came from the very top; I don’t know if Hillary Clinton hatched these egregious campaign strategies. But I do know this: she must have given the okay. She ran her campaigns.
So when President Obama is called a socialist and a Muslim–when Senator Sanders is called a self-hating Jew–don’t blame the conservative movement. Blame the Clinton machine for opening the doors to this despicable style of campaigning. She opened the door for Trump. She created the hatred and disrespect that our president has faced. And her ruthless campaigning, her attempt to cover it up, and her inability to step off the national stage for the good of the country has lead to the ugly partisanship that whipped up the racist frenzy that lead to the election of President-Elect Trump.
Hillary Clinton created Donald Trump. She created his narrative for him; she created the white working class backlash that ultimately destroyed her; karma is a… you know!
So maybe we should stop blaming conservatives and take a good hard look at our own Democratic Party and the damaged, amoral candidates we trot out there for our nominees. (Okay my liberal friends–I’m ready for the hate posts).
The New American Progressive
I grew up in the Old Harbor Housing Development in the Irish American neighborhood of South Boston. Currently, Southie has gained fame for being the home of gangsters, powerful politicians, and as the toughest inner city neighborhood in America. It is the home of Speaker of the House McCormick; but it’s the home of three housing projects as well. It’s the home of Senate President Bulger; but it’s also the home of Jimmy “Whitey” Bulger—the most infamous gangster of our generation.
I survived the streets of South Boston by learning to defend myself in a boxing gym with national champions and professional boxers. I still box to this day. I also am very blessed to come from a family that values education and demands top academic performance. Out of my Irish grandmother, who has her high school diploma, she had a daughter that put herself through nursing school as a single mom (my mother); out of four grandchildren, I went to Boston College High School founded in 1864 by the Jesuits as Boston College, and the girls went to Fontbonne Academy. Both are college preparatory schools run by the Jesuits and the Sisters of Saint Joseph, respectively. These Catholic orders inculcate their students with the belief that we are meant to be of service to others. Three of the four have Bachelors Degrees. One has a graduate degree, and I am a graduate degree candidate at Suffolk University in marketing. My BA is in political science.
I ran a multiplicity of Boston campaigns. I managed campaigns and was field coordinator. However, as field coordinator, my role was that of a campaign manager. I developed the theme, message, and strategy. The candidate and I start off with a SWOT analysis, and go from their. It requires tremendous trust for a public official to put her reputation in your hands, to trust you with their deepest, darkest secrets, and to develop a working relationship, so that the candidate does not need to be a campaign manager. Not all candidates are political scientists who grew up in politics and knew that campaigning was one of their callings.
I remember taking on a campaign managing role in one of my campaigns en medias res, and it was a campaign manager’s worst nightmare: I had an articulate, courageous, progressive candidate from a great Latino family, including a father who was a Boston Public School teacher. However, he knew not how to campaign. I proudly took over that campaign. That candidate went on to serve as the Boston Coordinator for Kennedy’s U.S. Senate bid.
I ran a presidential campaign for a labor union, and I needed to utilize my Southie street smarts to come out with the win.
I worked for the Obama ‘08 Campaign as a co-founder of South Boston for Obama. I then worked for him for a year in NH, where I got to meet and speak with him.
I served in two branches of government. I worked for the Committee for Public Counsel Services (public defenders), and, as an Adams, who going all the way back to John Adams, believed that the keystone to free society was fair and proper representation under the law for all people, no matter the court of public opinion.
I also worked in the legislative branch for a statesman named Senator Hart. I did constituent service work, which was so rewarding. I got to give back to a community that gave me the opportunity to achieve my dreams and goals.
As an undergraduate at Suffolk University where I served as the President of the Pre-Law Association and graduated with a 3.4 GPA, I was honored to be given a scholarship to study the effects of fascism and communism on Central Europe after writing a paper about my own family’s tragic experiences in Poland during Nazi occupation. I completed an independent study with a brilliant political scientist, Kenneth Cosgrove, PhD., author of Branded Conservatives, opened my eyes up to the ways in which conservatives successfully utilize modern marketing techniques to win elections. They shifted the country to the right with their use of marketing strategies.
I am currently an MSM (Masters in Science in Marketing) candidate at Suffolk University. I am proficient with Wordpress and Squarespace; Google Analytics; social media advertising campaigns; and other forms of marketing like STP (Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning).
This site will be the home of my new blog that will discuss politics and marketing.
I hope my life experience and my education in these fields creates a healthy dialogue that can lead to higher truths.
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