Well I’m too lazy to photoshop an “I’m With Her” t-shirt onto him.
Well I’m too lazy to photoshop an “I’m With Her” t-shirt onto him.
There’s a big issue with this argument though. I absolutely get how ambitious women are denigrated and considered bitches and untrustworthy - I see it every goddamn day at work. BUT. That doesn’t mean that thinking a woman is untrustworthy is automatically based in sexism, and I’m just pretty exhausted with any…
Just as there is clearly an inexaustible supply of Hillary supporters who still use bullshit terms like “Bernie bro”, and who made it perfectly clear that anyone—ANYONE—who voted for Bernie was only doing so because they were sexist. Because, obviously, there couldn’t possibly have been any substantive policy-based…
Um...maybe because she had no problems lying in public about shit that was easily proven wrong? You can sit in your comfortable excuse of sexism all you like. Certainly it prevents you, or anyone like you, from actually doing some introspection about your choice of candidate and her innumerable screwups in the…
Really??? Literally NOBODY is making this argument? Because I’ve seen it all over the online haunts I frequent, and someone once said almost literally those exact words to me IRL (a white feminist over the age of 60). In this very book it’s revealed that it was even floated as a potential campaign slogan.
Again, treating Hillary like a big loser because she got 2.86 M MORE votes than Trump is causing cognative dissonance so severe headaches. No Electoral College, no problem.
Well she lost, so great stratagem there.
At the convention, you’re supposed to move to unite the factions of the party. Not basically go “Fuck You” to a huge swath of energized voters and pick random-ass white dude from a northeastern purple state who shares most of your policy views.
This was exactly the problem with a lot of the Hillary supporters when faced with the surge of support for Sanders. God forbid that people have the temerity to actually support the candidate whom they agree with most. Nope, it was Hillary’s Turn, and anyone who said otherwise was a sexist shithead. As far as they are…
Nope. Here’s the fault:
Again, it’s always everyone’s fault but HRC’s.
“Bernie Bros and Kewl girls”
Because that pro-labor person would have beaten Trump about the head and face with the idea that he outsources his own jobs, proudly celebrates people getting fired, and really doesn’t give a damn about working-class americans. In an election where people are anxious about not having as good a life as their parents…
When did I get the feeling? When Obama made her Secretary of State in 2009.
I was shocked that she lost, but upon reflection, two things stuck out to me:
This goes hand in hand with the “didn’t have a clear message problem.” Dems in general have spent years campaigning to the center with the attitude that their base has nowhere else to go, and it finally caught up to them in a huge way.
I got the feeling when she announced Tim Kaine as her VP. This was the time to pick a firebrand pro-labor, anti-free trade person and she didn’t. At that moment, my “Oh Shit” alarm went off.
It was when my progressive friends on Facebook all came to the same collective realization that we were voting for Hillary not because we liked her but because she was our only bulwark against fascism. And when my libertarian friends on Facebook pushed toward Johnson because “fear is not a reason for voting.”
As…