Can Clinton win?

In a country where pervasive evils like sexism and racism exist (which is every country), it must be hard for certain women and people of color to determine why almost no one likes them. This brings us to Hillary Clinton.

The anchor, for good or bad, in Clinton's run for President is her lifelong bond with the Wall Street oligarchy. Most voters will overlook Clinton's Wall Street loyalties in the same way that they overlook the entire history of United States. Clinton's election problems are nonpolitical. 

My guess is that if you lived next door to Hillary Clinton, you would probably like her about as much as you do your current extremely rich neighbors. She'd be okay. She's obviously intelligent and competent--she served ably as secretary of state. When she starts to talk, you intend to like her. But what she says, even the mild trash talk about her opponents, seems mechanically calculated. Her remarks have been planned by experts and poll tested. At the moment she is moving a touch to the left, but her voice is, well, too rehearsed.  It's like the voice of a newscaster, dynamic and booming for no reason. Hillary sounds inauthentic, and she lacks moral force, like other secretaries of state.

Hillary's been a victim on the national stage, a genuine victim of ugly Republicans and a sleazy husband; how often do victims get picked to lead armies? 

The Democrats are about to nominate someone many people respect, sort of, but don't like and find false. That's the strategy chosen by the party leaders, who have pushed away a genuine Bernie Sanders. We can hope the Republicans don't find a candidate like George W. Bush, a dope voters once considered reasonably likable. I count on one thing. The Republicans will launch an attack on Hillary Clinton that will be so despicable that we will unite behind her in anger.