2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Privilege: Would your personal circumstances change if Bernie was President? [View all]Daemonaquila
(1,712 posts)NOBODY thinks they're going to be ok under Trump or Cruz. We will all be touched, personally or in friends/family, with unconstitutional laws and actions that will usher in a new dark age for elders, kids, people of color, immigrants, women, LGBT folks, non-christians, sick people, etc. Some people will still be in a similar spot in their job and mortgage and car payment, but that's all. Only self-deluded people think things will be unchanged for them. Only people with an overly aggressive Hillary-above-all agenda are willing to recklessly accuse others who don't want her as POTUS either, as being privileged and taking their stance only because they don't have any skin in the game.
I'm a white college graduate. My life is going to be worse if Clinton, Trump, or Cruz become president, though not in exactly the same way. Health care? Worse under all. I'm finally at an age where I have to occasionally worry about that. I have a relatively easily controlled (for now) chronic condition that costs a lot to keep controlled. I see no good coming from ANY of them in the health coverage department. I see no bright future in the fights against banks and corporations trying to rip me off regardless of which of those 3 would be POTUS. I'll have to be ever more worried about my kid and his family, trying to keep afloat. I'll be watching out for just as many, or more, state laws restricting abortion and making women's health care harder to get for me and for my friends. As a bi person, I expect I'll be seeing more and more state laws impacting my friends and community, with no help from Washington. I expect that all three of them would get us into a foreign war, with more friends' kids being sent overseas into danger for no good reason, and with disastrous economic consequences - again - for this nation as the "defense" budget sails through the roof at the expense of everything else. In short, there are 3 bad candidates out there, with Clinton being the least bad. But worse is worse.
Stop insulting people's intelligence with the idea that anyone but the 1% will be mostly ok... assuming they're white... regardless. Stop insulting people's integrity with the ridiculous accusation that we can take a principled stance only because we "have no skin in the game." Every time we hear this garbage from the Hillary camp, it's one more reason to reject her and the people who'll say anything for her to win.