I agree about there being WAY too much power restricted to grads of a handful of elite universities though. (Though this also doesn’t keep me from supporting a Harvard grad for FL AG.)

Basically I use a model called the quadrants view which sees each arising moment as consisting of individual and collective interior and exterior dimensions. Each of which is not caused by the other but all of which moment to moment “fourly” (or tetra) cause.

So by that model the standard social sciences view would constitute the material collective dimension of any moment. While the socionomic view would argue for the collective interior (“consciousness as mood” as in Heidegger) dimension of said occasion. Both models (standard and socionomic) claim that one side causes the other but I would say both arise together and are mutually causative.

hillary’s more left on domestic policy more hawkish undoubtedly foreign policy wise. arguably edwards made her move a little left in the primary. really I think of HRC as more interventionist/activist in her approach. She’s more paternalistic and I imagine she actually would have gone more heavy handed/confrontational given the economic situation.

I’m not saying that would have been a necessarily better option just that if someone holds that view of politics, Obama was never ever ever that guy.

I do think a lot of people on the left thought Obama could “wake people up” from being Republicans and leave them to die and are outraged and disappointed that his election didn’t represent a fundamental change in American culture.