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In reply to the discussion: Dear Bernie supporters. Please. Stop! [View all]FighttheFuture
(1,313 posts)they have.
I'm a Bernie supporter, but I have no qualms about voting for Hillary and will vote for her. Yeah, she's not a polished politician, she admits that herself. Also, she has a lot of negatives, and the super-majority of them are not her fault, just the 25 years of demonizing by the RW slinging lie after lie at her. Still, that's the reality. She will have to work hard to win.
On the plus side (for me), she's actually clerked during the Watergate hearings (as I remember). She comes from Chicago (Park Ridge). She is a more "old school" Democrat and I have hope for that in her. From a person I know that she babysat for way back, she was actually pretty engaged with them and a very nice person. I think she is a very good person and has this country's interests at heart. There are always many layers to a seasoned politician like her, but the core is good and the intentions are there.
Ultimately, this is hers and the Democratic Party leadership's election to lose. The fact that it appears closer than it should be is right at the feet of the greedy complacent money-grubbing corporate-leaning union trashing dimwits of the Democratic Party who have strayed pretty far off where the party really should be and have let themselves be rolled time after time so now we are at this ridiculous point in our country's history. So if the unthinkable happens and we have a President Trump, these shit for brains who's main slogan seems to be "we're less shitty than the other guy" need to go, not the people who want to bring this party back to its Jeffersonian and FDR roots; back to We the People.