I really want to thank all of you Hillary supporters who took genuine time to listen, connect, and appreciate what I had to say in my most recent diary. You just changed my mind tremendously. It was very important for me to open up with what I wanted to open up for a very long time. My personal story in my last diary was what really made it easy for me to clearly articulate why I had tremendous reservations for Hillary Clinton’s candidacy.
I will continue to be cautious as the campaign goes forward and I still have concerns about indictments and how she can fare against Trump given that polls have noted her high unfavorability rating. However, Hillary Clinton’s supporters earned my respect for the first time ever based on how your responded to my diary. I am kind of excited about the idea of Hillary Clinton. My thinking was so black and white and you knew how to reach me based on how I was thinking. That takes real empathy.
Bernie’s Sanders empathy is very black and white. I struggled with the same thing. It seems like Hillary Clinton has “big-picture empathy”. Bernie Sanders did the best he could and even though I still have HUGE problems with the DNC and the messy primary process, you Hillary Clinton supporters opened me up to his big flaws in empathy.
That does not mean he was a bad candidate. He was a very strong candidate and would have been a good president. However, I think people had huge reservations about how would he be effective as a president. Hillary Clinton definitely would be a much more effective president. The president is a different job than the senate.
I am really happy you reminded me that Hillary Clinton has extensive people working with her who are people with autism, barriers, Asperger’s, mental illness, and LGBT. I am proud of all the good things she really has done. I am seeing her connect with immigrant girls who live in fear of being deported. I did not see Bernie Sanders do any of that.
I did not know how to explain why I was feeling bothered by her candidacy and why I had deep reservations and skepticism. Being able to explain my anger at injustice/pain by corporatism and being manipulated by inhumane people growing up has been my lifelong struggle due to no resources for my Asperger’s/PTSD and severe abandonment.
I displaced a lot of anger on Hillary Clinton and her supporters. I am very sorry I did not know better when I was trying to explain my diaries. But I am finally starting to figure out how to constructively not let my anger at my pain/injustice cloud how I perceive people and understand the world.
Bernie Sanders made genuine efforts to reach out to the minority communities but Hillary Clinton did much better.
As long as she is not indicted by corruption and she shows that she can beat trump, I am optimistic about her as of now.
Thank you Hillary Clinton supporters. I really would like to be involved with Autism and human rights abuses that pertain specially to them. I hope I could do that in a Hillary Clinton administration.