2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What Hillary supporters don't understand [View all]Walk away
(9,494 posts)I worked my way through college and took a job that I was not enthusiastic about in order to qualify for subsidized graduate school. It took some time but I graduated debt free.
My health also made it impossible to continue with my career. I opened a small successful business, paid off my mortgage and built a retirement portfolio. I never bothered to discover whether or not I would qualify for Social Security. I'm glad that I didn't.
Most Democrats have no interest in electing a Socialist to office. Most of us pay our debts or don't spend money that we don't have. Most of us have savings and stock as part of our retirement and we do not hate Wall Street. We understand that we need someone who understands how to reign in the excesses of the Banks and other financial institutions. We are confident in Hillary Clinton. We have no interest in destroying our own future security that we worked so hard to create.
I do understand that socialism seems attractive to people who are in large amounts of debt or are not working in a job that pays them enough to pay off those debts. I believe classes in financial responsibility should be required in order to graduate high school.