Hillary's Incompetence is an Actual Comfort.
I started actively looking for *anything* accomplishment wise that would make me think "she's a leader" and really, there isn't ANYTHING except one amazing speech to the United Nations back in the 90s where she said "women's rights are human rights".
Other than that, nothing except fundraising and speeches.
She jumps on "already accomplished stuff" where other people do the heavy lifting, and seriously,
NOTHING.
Al Gore made climate change into something non-scientists could talk about. Princess Diana helped AIDS victims by being photographed hugging them, and worked tirelessly to ban and remove land mines. Jesse Jackson is front and center when it comes to African Americans dealing with discrimination.
Hillary Clinton -- got Bush Junior to give $20B to New York after 911 and then played cheer leader for an unnecessary destabilizing war. As a legislater, she joined in on efforts to "pass" things but never had the power or influence to actually PASS ANYTHING that would benefit people. As Secretary of State, her failures outnumber her successes and that doesn't even include the illegal stuff with her "private server". My personal favorite? Using the Clinton Foundation to "rebuild Haiti" - millions of dollars raised, nothing actually accomplished, and children starving in tents seven years later while charges of corruption are ignored.
Her signature issue -- women's rights -- is another nothing. Access to abortion has dramatically decreased in the US in multiple states and do we want to discuss how women are doing in the non-European world between the refugee crisis she helped create and ISIS and the African AIDS crisis? We have more poor and homeless children than we did twenty-five years ago, because the policies she advocated for were absolute disasters in dealing with real world issues (but by cutting services, money was saved).
Even her attacks on Bernie Sanders have by and large utterly failed due to their stupidity -- PopeGate? WifeRudeness? Misogynist/Racist/Scammer/Spoiler -- if it comes from the Hillary camp, at this point you know they are lying. Don't even get me started on the Obama campaign -- Kenyon Muslim?
In summary, I can't find anything where she pulled a "point and shoot" to actually successfully solve a problem.
And oddly enough, that is a comfort to me. I make no secret that I believe she will be the recipient of an FBI recommendation for indictment fairly soon, but knowing she is an actual incompetent, and the more she talks, the less she is liked, the more her background is examined as a serious candidate, the more obvious it becomes she doesn't support core Democratic principles in practice, the more her financial interests are examined, the more obvious the cronyism and corruption become -- this comforts me.
My resolve is strengthened. I will not despair. We are not choosing "management" but Leadership and I support Bernie Sanders.
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