Hillary Clinton And Her Gaming Strategy
1 comment November 9th, 2007
The Clinton campaign has just announced another of their inane contests. Last time, the winner got to eat potato chips with Bill Clinton. This time, among new financial contributors to Hillary’s campaign, a drawing will be held, and the winner gets to have a sandwich with Hillary Rodham Clinton while out on the campaign trail with her.
Honest to God, I did not make this up. What is so tragic, however, is that this appeal to games and gimmickry by the Hillary Clinton campaign must be working, or else the Clinton political machine would not be investing so heavily in this strategy.
These games are what we expect in a celebrity culture. The winner gets to have dinner with a movie star, or rock singer. What Hillary Clinton has done, apparently with much success, is to import these celebrity dynamics from the world of entertainment into the political arena.
Resorting to games and a bag of tricks means not having to focus the campaign on serious, even critical issues. The long-term ramifications from the Iraq war disaster, America’s looming economic meltdown and ending corruption in Washington D.C. can all be put on the back burner, or dealt with superficially. Hillary is conditioning the American electorate to make their voting decisions on the basis that the presidential election is another Hollywood game show, with Hillary Rodham Clinton being the all-star player that the masses should pay homage to as the ultimate political celebrity.
This emergence of the celebrity presidential candidate, which I describe in some detail in my book, “Hillary Clinton Nude,” is symptomatic of the decay and disfunctionality that characterizes contemporary American politics. This plethora of Hillaryland tricks, games and circuses for the masses has a very dark side; it diverts the electorate from real threats and challenges that pose a growing threat to the nation and its very continuity.
Sheldon Filger, Author
“Hillary Clinton Nude”
www.hillary-clinton-nude.com
