Prison culture can teach us a lot about Weinstein, Bill Clinton and how Hillary built her cult of intimidation.
A friend of mine worked in a manufacturing environment where many of the warehouse workers were former inmates or gang members. One of the employees who was a mild mannered black man with a learning disability and partially blind who was not a gang member complained about harrassment. A hispanic gang leader & ex-con would regularly come around and grab his crotch and expose himself to the black man and to others and then laugh. The black man told the HR manager he was quitting because nobody would stand up to him.
Through a lengthy investigation, some interesting points emerged. Testimony of others that was eventually drawn out described a power dynamic that had little to do with sex. They also went out of their way to point out that neither men were gay. They described a prison culture dynamic where the gang leader would roam about engaging in humiliating gestures and then dare the others to complain. The exercise of enforcing the cover up was the goal. The enforcement was the gang leader's means of constructing a pecking order and an air of intimidation that allowed him to use his power to dole out favors and instill discipline in his ranks. It gave him freedom to run the warehouse his way and supercede the power of the warehouse manager. It diminished a respect for the law and for rules and replaced it with a cult of personality.
This is what Hillary Clinton brought to Washington... A Prison yard culture. And it may not be that the sex was intentionally used to create this network of intimidation, but Hillary knew over time that in Arkansas, with State troopers, bimbo eruptions and paid off reporters the discipline to support him AND her was a valuable byproduct.
If one remembers the breaking of the Gennifer Flowers story, the swarming of the war room to schmooze and persuade reporters and the threats, the tapes, and all of it... Stephanopolous and Carville would later admit, Hillary was the real ring leader of this effort. New York elected her to the Senate on sympathy that she was wronged and had to endure the humiliation for so long, when in fact, she thrived on the power and enforcement of discipline the Bimbo eruptions gave her. When you consider Juanita Broaderick's story of how Hillary approached her with that weird look in her eye. That was the look of a prison gang leader that took delight in intimidating the victims and the power rush that came with it.
Several articles today have pointed out that Weinstein thrived on humiliation. I don't doubt he was a pervert and sex predator, but in an industry of power hungry men, the sexual humilation had a synergy with his overall power dynamic.... like the Clintons. He thrived on it.
Nobody since LBJ could intimidate his allies and opponents like the Clintons, so I'm sure Weinstein saw kindred spirits in their 2016 campaign. We were taught during the Anita Hill Clarence Thomas days, that it is not necessary for the victim to file complaints and also the notion that Monica Lewinsky was willing or unwilling is irrelevant. It is the air of intimidation and the disregard for others to be judged on their merits and by rules and laws that counts. Vernon Jordan and an army of wealthy donors were on standby to smuggle bimbos out of town and get them cushy jobs and buy their silence.
Weinstein and men like him revel in flouting the rules. They rejoice when the cult of personality overwhelms the rules and the laws. And like a cancer their lust for a wider realm for power and intimidation invades other industries and in Weinstein's case, the world of journalism and politics. In the case of the Clintons it was first as DA of a small southern state. Then as governor. Then the US.... and when one considers the depravity of the Clinton Global Initiative,... the entire world. Think about why Princes, Emirs, billionaires and entire nations would shower the Clintons with so many gifts and money as Bill flies around the world with an entourage that we know now included bimbos & party animals. And Hillary was always hailed as racking up the most frequent flyer miles. Long after Bill's Lewinsky days had passed, their image as enforcers and intimidators had gone world wide in a way that foreign strongmen could understand. Rules didn't apply. Hillary was one of "them". She could get things done. She could flout the rules and sell influence. She was the prison yard thug that everybody feared. She didn't even have to leave her hotel suite to campaign, she embodied thug life and was going to win.
So in a weird ancient ritual of leadership that goes back tens of thousands of years, when she collapsed on September 11, 2016, the source of her power, intimidation was seen as having been weakened. Her physical vulnerability undercut her political power. And the vigor and boldness of Trump to challenge her and threaten to put her in prison, fit like a perfect puzzle piece in to the appropriate role required to defeat her. It was the prison yard showdown and she was not prepared for it.
So to answer Hillary's question, "What happened?". What happened to a person who entered the national stage in the year of the woman, using sexual harassment as a key part of her allure and then used her knack for intimidation gained through harassing, threatening and rewarding journalists, political allies and the legal system to build a machine so massive that she was assumed to be a slam dunk as the most powerful person on earth, with out even needing to waste time on the formalities of campaigning? What happened was another powerful person called her out to the prison yard and people who had not carefully scrutinized her years of failings, suddenly began to be less intimidated. Coal miners who once had to just accept her abuse, felt free to stand up. Neglected swing state voters got tired of the neglect. Her sycophants were stunned at the notion that some Americans saw her as a bully, but according to recent interviews within her inner circle she was considered a monstrous screaming ball of rage.
The friend of mine who dealt with the harassment case of the blind black employee said there was a lot of push back not to pursue the matter. Don't rock the boat. Corporate said its best to contain the situation, not fire anybody. But many were going to quit and the gang leader was eventually fired. Ironically, my friend and the few that pushed were at first heroes for bringing order and rules back to the warehouse, but eventually were considered do-goodys and forced out. And when we wonder why the Mainstream GOP is expecting the party to not rock the boat, not upset the power structure, we can remember, in a world where rules have been pushed aside for so long, it is hard to drain the swamp and the ones who are "true believers" and do-goodys are considered un-persuadeable and can't be bought. That scares them.
People see a deeper similarity between Weinstein and the Clintons but can't put their finger on it. It is the lawlessness of the party of antifa and the cult of personality. It is the incredible party discipline of the DNC that goes back to the Klan days. It is the hyper reality where hypocrisy in reality means nothing if symbolically it can be argued away. The show is what matters and the little people be damned. It is prison culture intimidation and humiliation of those that don't serve you. Sex itself plays a very small role in it.
Prison culture is the lord of the flies and doesn't belong outside of those walls, but for a quarter century a serial womanizing sexual predator and his power hungry other half used that prison culture intimidation to nearly take over the world. We stopped it. Now they should go put some ice on it. Thats what happened, Hillary.
