She was a formidable politician, one of the best of breed, although I disagreed with almost every one of her policies.

Fortunately, her political acumen had very little to do with her gender......she was doing a job for the political system which she supported and she was bloody good at it.
British manufacturing had become unprofitable and to save the system or to buy time it had to be pruned in a manner which devastated the working class......making it almost extinct and removing its political power.
A housing boom based on credit and the sale of "council houses" bought more time and turned most of the population into property owning capitalists.....Blair and New Labour continued her work until the inevitable financial crash of 2008.

The figureheads are really meaningless, you talk of the left of the Democratic Party, there is no left in the Democratic party, only a pissy marshmallow, rights obsessed, ineffective centre and Mrs Clintons stormtroopers........what a bloody choice!

If you really want change you must start by dismantling the socio/ economic system and re constructing it. Mr Sanders would be a start, but it will be a long haul and no one on these pages would see it come to fruition.......Mrs Clinton and her ilk are the heirs to Thatcher and Blair, a two tier society based on financial aspiration and the wealth gap growing ever wider.