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Why With Her?
by
aloehrer
Community
(This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)
Monday, Apr. 11, 2016
Monday, Apr. 11, 2016
at
9:49:42am PDT
Please correct me if I'm wrong, and I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything but I feel like my Hillary-supporting friends and family might be supporting Hillary for some or all of the following reasons:
They have money,
do not have student debt
, and/or are comfortable economically.
They have a completely different ideology than
Bernie supporters
re: climate change, foreign policy, the economy, social issues, and healthcare.
They feel bad about what Hillary had to endure in the 90s with the vicious and relentless
Republican attacks on her
, and her husband's philandering.
They just want to see the first female president.
They are simply unaware of Hillary's history of voting for
terrible bills
and
terrible wars
, supporting disastrous
trade agreements
, taking money from
private prisons
,
big banks
and the
fossil fuel industry
,
selling fracking around the world
, and supporting interventionist wars, dictators, and
coups
.
Is this true? Am I just being a
#BernieBroad
? What am I missing? Are there different reasons? I have some really smart, liberal friends and family members who are Hillary supporters and I am just trying to understand why.
I don't think Hillary is unqualified. I don't find her "shrill." I don't care about her damn emails or the Benghazi "scandal." She is clearly not at fault for anything her husband did/does. I actually
liked
her
headbands
in the 90s. And I don't even care that she
doesn't know how to use a MetroCard
(however, it is very funny).
And I don't feel like Hillary is a bad person. I feel like she is a product of the system, and her generation. I know she couldn't have gotten this far without playing the game or without "
leaning in.
" But I just think we can do better. I know we can do better. We must do better.