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There is a presumption in both candidates that the lowest motivations are the most real. There is an assumption, in both campaigns, that we are self-seeking creatures, rather than also loving, serving, hoping, dreaming, cooperating creatures. There is an entire absence, in both campaigns, of any effort to appeal to the higher angels of our nature. More surprising, this boomer-versus-boomer campaign has decimated idealism. The twin revolutions of the 1960s and the 1980s liberated the individual - first socially and then economically - and weakened the community. This is pure interest-group liberalism - buying votes with federal money - not an inspiring image of the common good. And it is never enough just to list three programs in an answer she has to pile in an arid hodgepodge of eight or nine.
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When asked why she wants to be president or for any positive vision, she devolves into a list of programs. Clinton can be a devastatingly good counterpuncher, but she lacks the human touch when talking about the nation’s problems, and fails to make an emotional connection. That poetic, aspirational quality is entirely absent from what has become the Clinton campaign. Where you’re not interested in social engineering for people.” The words were grandiose, but at least there was a spiritual ambition to them. She dreamed of a society in which trust would be restored. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.