Without major investments in care for children and elderly people,our nations growth – and our wellbeing – will falterHillary Clinton’s political brand is mainstream, incremental and pragmatic. She presents herself as “the progressive who wants to glean things done”, or a tagline that emphasizes the need to sacrifice grand visions on the altar of results. She may prioritize reform over revolution,but she is also the candidate of much bigger ideas than is typically recognized.
One of these touches the heart of government itself: the role of the state. The modern state was created to protect its citizens; although the line between defending citizens from one another and foreign invaders and waging war as a foreign invader was blurry at best. As the sociologist Charles Tilly wrote: “War made the state and the state made war.” The state thus created was the “fiscal-military state”. In Manuel Lin-Miranda’s rap retelling of precisely this struggle between Hamilton and Jefferson: “If we assume the debts, the union gets a recent line of credit, or a financial diuretic; If we’re aggressive and competitive the union gets a boost.”
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Source: theguardian.com