Vitriol To Come

On Jonathan Bernstein's Bloomberg blog, as I'm sure is true on other sites that host comments, any mention of Hillary Clinton and her possible 2016 candidacy receives numerous hate-filled comments generated apparently by rabid right sites.

While these are educational in the sense that they permit glints of clarification of the peculiar mindset or foundation myths of the rabid right,  they are mostly preview of vitriol to come.  Clinton has an extremely high approval rating among Democrats, and she has the best chance in history so far to bring a woman to the U.S. presidency.  So it is likely she will run and win the Democratic nomination, and this frenzy will be our political future.

How refreshing it will be to put racist vitriol behind us and concentrate on sexist and age vitriol (usually in combination) for the next decade, while we watch the climatic consequences of our cowardly self-indulgence.