Often, I hear people say that they're *going* to vote for Hillary, but they just want to feel good about it.
And the word SCOTUS is certainly bandied around, er, liberally...
But, in the name of all that is holy, WHY Hillary?
1) Hillary is CERTAINLY the most progressive candidate in a generation, with feminist bona fides that are simply irrefutable. You want equality amongst the genders? You want wage equity? You want to be able to buy a house without having to check the box that says "Spinster"? You want access to medical care without some man saying that you can't make your own decisions? There are too many to list; but, just for one, Hillary got the Lily Ledbetter Act through Congress ensuring equal pay for equal work.
- HILLARY HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT PERSON
2) Hillary's bona fides on health care are second to NO ONE's. From the beginning, Hillary wanted universal health care. And I'm not talking ObamaCare. I'm talking 25 years ago. And, after *that* got the Republican Hillary-Hate-Machine going, after she lost that race, she stayed in the game and got universal health coverage for children. The word to remember is HillaryCare. The letters to remember are SCHIP.
- HILLARY HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT PERSON
3) Me, I'm anti-war and pro-veteran. You can't always be both. It's not a realistic to have America's military stand down. But Hillary Clinton's solution to volatile situations isn't just nuke-em-all-and-let-God-sort-them-out. She got the Iran nuclear deal to the table, and approved, all without firing a single shot. She negotiated the Gaza cease-fire. She got the START Treaty ratified so we don't have duck-and-cover drills in grade schools anymore.
At the same time, she got full military benefits to National Guard members and reservists. After all, if you're going to get shipped overseas to fight for your country, you deserve to get the bullet removed from your leg while you're there.
- HILLARY HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT PERSON
4) She can take a hit, and comes off the mat swinging. For the past quarter of a century, she has faced an unprecedented and unparalleled series of attacks on her character, superfluous investigations, attacks on her marriage, her sexual identity, her professionalism, everything. The right wing has spent millions of dollars -- probably tens of millions of dollars -- redefining her in the public's eye, so that they can ONLY SEE THE NEGATIVE. These are attacks that people don't survive. Any *one* of the whisper campaigns, let alone the shouting campaigns, have ruined people's careers, and lives. And she keeps getting up off the mat.
People call her a serial criminal and a whatever-that-word-was liar. THAT IS COMPLETELY NONSENSICAL AND CATEGORICALLY WRONG.
If you'd been living under the microscope where you knew that every conversation that you had, every action that you'd take, every birthday party you've ever been to would result in a Congressional investigation, you wouldn't commit any criminal activity. Fuck, if a cop is driving behind you, you drive the speed limit, right? If a *shred* of what they have been saying is true, she would have been in prison 20 years ago. You think they like her? IF THEY HAVEN'T COME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT STICKS, THERE'S NOTHING THERE.
The fact that they KEEP COMING AT HER, and she KEEPS FIGHTING BACK, makes her the greatest fighter since Ali hung up his gloves.
You want a fighter in office?
HILLARY HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT PERSON.
There are a whole lot of other things to be excited about Hillary for. She's a remarkable person.
If you're gonna vote for her anyway, you know, just so the world will still be here in 2020, you might as well be excited to do so.
This isn't a hold-your-nose-and-vote candidate.
This is a remarkable woman. She's going to be a remarkable president. And she's gonna save the country (at the very least, the Supreme Court will stop marching to drumbeats of impending fascism) and the world (cuz we're not going to rain nukes down from the skies and kill everyone who criticizes her hairstyle).
And one more thing to think about...
Why in the world would they have spent so much time and money creating a nonsensical fictional caricature of her, if they weren't scared to death that she would completely obliterate all their hard work of Making America Fascist (Again) ??