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Newsletter Nr. 620
Amsterdam, August 8th, 2016


CLINTON VS. TRUMP - A More Integrated Perspective - ELLIOT BENJAMIN

In my recent Integral World essay The Antidote for US President Trump[1] there were a number of comments to the effect that my perspective was “partial.” Well to quote some of the commentators in their more evocative language, I swallowed the Democratic mainstream message “hook, line, and sinker” and I drank the “Mainstream Media Coolaide” and I engaged in the “First Tier Food Fight.” But I tried to convey in my previous Integral World essay that I was not naive about the shortcomings of Hillary Clinton—in particular about her hawkish inclinations that I always had much concern about. Yes I was moved by the Democratic National Convention and I was not disappointed in Hillary Clinton's speech. But the bottom line for me is that I believed—and still believe—that the choice of Donald Trump for president would be a disaster to the United States and the world that far outweighs whatever Hillary Clinton might do as the next US president.

Now I understand that not everyone agrees with me about what I believe in regard to Clinton vs. Trump. And in the interest of moving toward a more “integrated”[2] perspective, I have been reading through both sides of the debate of this urgent issue. Bryan O'Doherty, in one of his comments to my above-mentioned article[1], suggested that I check out a site[3] that is based upon a recently extremely critical book by Republican activist Peter Schweizer[4] about both Hillary and Bill Clinton, entitled Clinton Cash[5]. Well I checked out this site and watched the full hour-plus long video/movie[6] based on the Clinton Cash book. And my reaction as I was watching the video/movie was one of alarm, shock, and embarrassment about how naive I had been to think that Hillary Clinton was anything resembling “good.” But then I started thinking about a more “integrated” perspective and I decided to check out responses to the Clinton Cash book and video/movie.

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