Most of us are very familiar with Secretary Clinton's records as a progressive trail-blazer. A woman who lives by a simple principle "do all the good you can, for all the people you can, for as long as you can”. That principle was drilled into her by her church from her early age.
It was the same principle that made her to reject high priced law firm after law school in favor of Children’s Defense Funds. That principle guided her to fight for juvenile prison reform in South Carolina. It guided her to work with families with disable children in Massachusetts and to expose racism in Alabama school system. The same principle took her to Texas to register Latino voters and lead her to offer legal aid to families in Arkansas. She did all those things before she ever run for elected offices.
Secretary Clinton is a progressive that get things done. After losing a good fight in 1993 on behalf of Universal Health Care, she dusts herself back up and helped to create Children Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The CHIP program benefits 8 million kids (not too shabby).
As First Lady, she helped pass a bill that increased non-infant and special need adoption by 80%. As a Senator, after 9/11 terrorist attack, she secured heath care for the first responders. She also helped secure health care and family leave for military families. As a Secretary of State, she negotiated a very important nuclear treaty with Russia. When she left the State Department, United States favorability ratings went up by about 20 points.
A fearless progressive champion. In 1995, she stood her ground in front of the whole world at U.N. women’s conference in Beijing to proclaim that “women’s rights are human rights once and for all.”
Women’s Rights are Human Rights, once and for all — Hillary Clinton 1995
As a presidential candidate, Secretary Clinton is continuing her fight for universal health care through an improved ACA. She is fighting for minimum wage increase and a well overdue equal pay for women. She plan to revitalize the economy with high paying jobs by investing in infrastructure, clean energy, provision of small business supports and labor friendly trade agreements.
Secretary Clinton has put forward a robust climate change agenda and according to the experts, the most comprehensive plan to reform Wall Street. She is seeking to reverse Citizens United. She has put forward a plan to seek cure for diseases like Alzheimer, cancer etc. She is fighting for LGBT rights, rights of people with disability and an end to systemic racism.
She has offered the best plan for debt free higher education, student loan refinance, universal pre-K education, child care support and sensible gun control. Secretary Clinton is committed to immigration reform with path to citizenship, criminal justice reform, Veterans assistance programs, effective foreign policy, national security and compassionate treatment for people with drug addiction. The list goes on.
When people talk about progressive agenda, you cannot do better than what Secretary Clinton have to offer (IMHO). She has been a progressive champion before the word progressive become sexy.
Come to think of it, Republican Party got their dream leader too in the person of Donald Trump. As we are all aware, GOP has been all about discrimination, they are against women’s right to choose, against equal pay for women, against minimum wage increase and against LGBT rights. They are against affirmative action, against Universal Healthcare, against immigration reform with path to citizenship and against sensible gun control. Donald Trump’s messages are in complete sync with any other Republican politicians. Trump just happens to deliver Republican Party’s discriminatory agenda in a plain language.
No one is perfect. However, in Secretary Clinton, Democrats have nominated a life-long progressive with passion for results. No matter how you slice it, Democrats has picked the best presidential candidate. It is time to unite. There is no swing State, the plan is a 50 States strategy. To advance progressive agenda, we must retain the Presidency and take control of the Congress this November. Let’s roll.