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In reply to the discussion: The issue is "The Family"...not "religion". [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Warren was a Southern Strategy Republican, part of the most murderously anti gay and racist version of that Party to exist in my lifetime. Warren was with them while they did great evil. Her Reagan sat in the Oval and refused to so much as mention AIDS while the death toll rose endlessly. Republicans at that time were discussing 'camps' for gay people. She remained in that Party. She remained in that Party which was also stridently anti choice, actively and definitively anti choice and anti gay. And racist, seriously racist.
She has never bothered to discuss any of that. I have never heard her state she favors equality. When asked why she left the GOP, Warren says she disagreed about 'markets'. Not about the camps, the right to life, the anti gay ignorance, the free hand given to the health crisis of our time, the years wasted by those bigoted Republicans in charge.
She and Hillary both have things to address. I was literally in the streets protesting the Party that Warren was part of. Voting for that is going to requires much work on her part, much honesty and discussion of the horrors her favored policies caused.
When Bill was elected, it was in fact a huge relief. It was hope coming to town, it was a change of course. And Hillary was part of that.
So while I do not trust Hillary and the Family, that does not mean I trust a Republican convert that hesitates to criticize Republican social policy of the era in which she promoted and supported that vicious, terrible set of policies.
They want to be President, this is not some game. It is very serious business.