With a lot of Katy Perry songs providing the soundtrack for the evening, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has accepting her Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States of America - the first woman to lead a major party ticket in the US.

The final night of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia had exorcised most - but not all - of the dissent from the party's Bernie Sanders-loving Left.  The few stragglers who tried to interrupt Hillary's landmark acceptance speech were barely audible on the television broadcast, and drowned out by the vast majority chanting, "Hillary!" or, "USA!"  Introduced by her daughter Chelsea Clinton, the speech was well-received in the huge arena, and the convention overall got vastly better TV ratings than the Republican convention, reaching a much larger audience.

To the Left, Mrs. Clinton said, "I want you to know, I've heard you.  Your cause is our cause."  The party platform - or, Manifesto, to the rest of the world - makes major concessions brought by her former rival Senator Bernie Sanders, not least of which is working towards free college education for all young Americans and the elimination of student debt.

To the Center and Right, Clinton offered her unique resume as a steady and patriotic American who would stand up for citizens of all races and creeds and unite the country to persevere against Islamic terrorists, economic troubles, and the chaos of gun violence.  "I sweat the details of policy," she said, "Because it's not just a detail if it's your kid - if it's your family.  It's a big deal.  And it should be a big deal to your president."

"Do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as ever you can," she said.  "To drive real progress, you have to change both hearts and laws" she said.  "You need both understanding and action."  And she emphasized her perseverance in standing up to two and a half decades of right-wing conspiracy theories:  "More than a few times, I've had to pick myself up and get back in the game."

And she drew a sharp contrast between her steady, calm experience to the boorish and immature bombast of fascist demagogue and Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump.

"Donald Trump can't even handle the rough-and-tumble of a presidential campaign," she said. "He loses his cool at the slightest provocation," and reminded voters that elections have consequences:  "Imagine him in the Oval Office facing a real crisis.  A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons," reminding voters of Trump's many social media feuds over nonsense.

She also criticized Trump from taking the Republican Party from the optimism of Ronald Reagan's famous "Morning in America" speech, to the dystopian fear-mongering in last week's GOP convention that portrayed America as overrun by terrorists and criminals (it's not) and the world outside its borders as "scary".  Clinton said the orange clown, "wants us to fear the future and fear each other".

And overall, she says her over-privileged Republican rival is clueless about their country:  "In the end, it comes down to what Donald Trump doesn't get: that America is great - because America is good," she said.