Friday 30 December 2016

Is Hillary Going to the Crowbar Hotel?



I notice at https://thehornnews.com/shocker-hillary-clinton-jailed/ a report on further developments in the Clinton scandal. It discusses a December 27 ruling by an appeals court in the USA that John Kerry was derelict in his duty to refer the Hillary case to the Attorney General for prosecution when she did not comply with the request for her emails but bleached the data instead. It also discusses Trump’s nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions from Alabama as the new Attorney General, and the rigid opposition of Democrats to the nomination on account of their apprehension that the nominee will pursue Hillary all the way to jail.

Of particular interest are the 100+ comments posted at the foot of the article. Those folks really are bitter towards the former first lady and her husband. In another time and place she would have been burned as a witch or beheaded as a traitor. I wonder how much of that ire stems from personal frustrations that have nothing to do with the Clinton shenanigans. I am not trying to mitigate Mrs. Clinton’s guilt, or overlook the ridiculous number of Clinton contacts that seem to have dropped dead in the Clinton wake over the last 40 years, but I am curious about the social psychology of this situation. Of course, reductionists try to attribute psychology to elementary physics: every thought and feeling is a function of the interaction of physical forces and materials. I don’t buy that, and maybe will write about it separately.

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