Xequecal wrote:
I really don't get the hate for Hilary Clinton. She's a bog standard center-left candidate. Yeah, her campaign definitely has the "you should elect me because I'm a woman and it's my turn" thing going on, but every candidate does that. Obama got elected for being black, and does no one remember Bush's "God wants me to be President" shtick?
She isn't a "bog-standard center-left candidate at all"; if she were Bernie Sanders would have put paid on her account a long time ago.
She's Hillary Clinton. She's been running for President for the last 24 years now, and her platform has been exclusively that she's a ***** woman lawyer and wouldn't it just be so cool to have a woman president for the sake of having a woman president. She has no actual positions whatsoever on any issue other than "whatever is best for Hillary Clinton this week" - she's been in a scramble to get left of Sanders on any issue that presents itself for the last 9 months now. LGBT stuff is a perfect example; she rather suddenly decided she was all about that when the social trend tipped over to favoring same-sex marriage (same as Obama did). The possible sole exception is gun control, where she consistently never saw a gun control measure she didn't like becuase it plays well with the victim groups her tactics focus on.
Her tactics consist entirely of pandering to victimhood groups and painting their interests as necessarily and diametrically opposed to the nonvictim group. This is how she's managed to keep Sanders at bay; without being quite so absurd as to call Sanders a racist she's implied he's the white people's candidate because he deals with economic issues as economic issues rather than portraying them in racial terms. She represents the liberal gold standard of portraying poor (particularly rural poor) whites as the enemy on one hand because they're obviously racists and do terrible things like mine coal, hunt, and listen to music too uncool for sophisticates that don't live out in the boondocks, then acting shocked that those same people don't believe she has their best interest at heart as working or poor people - which is the plan. Rural whites are much more valuable to the "machine" part of the Democrat party as a scary boogeyman that doesn't control all that many House seats or electoral votes in order to drive more minorities and people that just can't stand camoflage clothing into their arms.
On top of that, she is utterly incompetent to deal with military and foreign affairs. Her history is entirely one of getting warring factions to stop fighting for just long enough to claim victory, congratulating herself, and then taking off and blaming someone else (generally George Bush because obviously it's still all his fault) either directly or by implication. She is perfectly willing to take foreign donations, and she is incapable of dealing with China or Russia becuase they aren't small countries that she can easily shove into line with aircraft carriers and marines for long enough to do the aforementioned victory claim. She has been part of the crowd scoffing at the idea that we are facing serious threats again because that would just be too inconvenient politically.
Finally, her woman cred is absolutely laughable; it consists of continuing to pretend abortion is the be-all and end-all of "women's healthcare", her own possession of a vagina, elderly and hollywood feminists angrily lecturing other women, and of course the prominence that she has only because of her husband. She is a true coat-tail-rider in every sense. She'd be a second-rate corporate lawyer somewhere threatening her granddaughter's preschool with lawsuits for Chelsea's convenience if Bill Clinton had lost in 1992.
On the issues, if you were planning to vote for Sanders, you're nuts not to go to Trump. It just might mean giving up the sacred cow of viewing other people as racist misogynists, but really, it's high time people confronted the fact that Megan Kelly and Rosie O'Donnell are wealthy, powerful people and bullies themselves and that saying nasty things about them or confronting them does not make one a misogynist.
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