If you want a canny take on Clinton, watch the 1960 movie Elmer Gantry , starring Burt Lancaster and based on the 1927 Sinclair Lewis novel. Small-town poor boy learns to hustle, woo and preach, and grab whatever moral set of clothes suits him at the moment. If you shot sodium pentothol into Clinton's veins, you might hear him admit he was glad that Hillary's health care grab went toes up in 1993 and that the Republicans swept Congress in 1994. I'm not defending the Clinton presidency or chaos in anyone's presidency, except as comedy. But comfort with chaos in the explosive tech and entrepreneurial sectors is surely a plus for a politician who wants prosperity.
Central planning is a killer in business today.
Think Europe and Japan. Crucial data about science, invention, capital, talent, supply, channels and prices can't possibly travel up the pipe to a central planner and back down fast enough. Among the few things genuine about Al Gore is his love of central planning. Thus for all his technoposing, Gore is way out of step. I. Many Western intellectuals thought democracy was doomed.