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Re: Back on wotmania, I wondered if there was a correlation between readers' politics & WoT factions - Edit 1

Before modification by RugbyPlayingAshaman at 24/04/2017 01:32:10 AM

My response was moreso tongue-in-cheek just out of some form of happiness in seeing you still on the anti-Egwene train. Obviously, this is all in good fun since none of the characters in WoT are quite fleshed out enough to really map to a real person and we generally do not know the true personalities and beliefs of current and ancient politicians.

If I were to play along, I would actually say that Hillary Clinton is more similar to Siuan Sanche - I support the pragmatic approach they favor and an understanding of their approach to managing factions but I do not necessarily agree with supporting the establishment for the sake of the establishment. I've heard enough from friends who worked in the Clinton White House and on both campaigns, and who know her, to suggest that the question of whether Hillary was the right messenger for the times (i.e. confronting a non-conservative, non-Republican propped up by a shadow behind-the-scenes big-money extremist elite with the right buzz words and the right election cycle to put any establishment politician on their weak foot) was seriously considered during the campaign showing both a sense of humility while Hillary's miss-steps on the campaign trail shows her simultaneous bad habit of hubris to really remind me of Siuan.

Egwene, especially after her moment of truth, really was not accepting of the status quo enough to be "establishment". And, of course, she is part of a younger generation. Neither she nor Rand really have easy analogs IMHO.


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