I really can’t stand Hillary Clinton.
I didn’t want to start hating her again, like I did when she was up against Obama. I wanted to maintain the equilibrium and continue to think that there were two viable, decent candidates for the Democratic nomination and I just happened to like Bernie Sanders more.
But just like with Obama, as the race goes on, Hillary’s true nature – that of a soulless shrew with no moral center who has naked ambition where her heart should be – shows, and I end up hating her goddamned guts and wishing she would shrivel up and blow away already.
And that goes for her supporters as well. I remember how they attacked Obama by calling him “an uneducated black man” when the dude went to Harvard and graduated with honors. That’s just about as educated as you can get. Gee, ladies…. racist much?
And now you have Madeline Albright, someone I had a lot of respect for, trotting out her “there’s a special place in Hell for women who don’t help other women” line in support of Hillary, thus implying that women who don’t support Hillary are going to Hell. Gee, Maddie, I thought us liberals were against all that fire, brimstone, and guilt stuff.
So I guess either we liberals are for that kind of thing now…. or you’ve stopped being a liberal.
But far far worse was someone I idolized, Gloria Steinem, saying that the young female supporters of Bernie Sanders are only going to his rallies to meet boys.
That hurt so bad. It’s such an ignorant, thoughtless, and insulting comment that it would be bad enough coming from anyone, but to hear it from someone I considered to be a wise and intelligent leader and my favorite feminist EVER was like a blow to the heart. With that offhand comment, she attacked millions of young American women, suggesting they have no actual political agency and no real convictions, they just do what their hormones tell them to do.
That is the exact opposite of feminism and it wounds me deep to see someone I think of as one of the founders of modern feminism as well as one of its brightest and most cogent articulaters spout such venomous nonsense into the political discourse of modern liberalism.
That alone is probably the biggest factor in why my disdain for Hillary has turned into burning hatred. I am incapable of hating Steinem. But I can hate the woman whose ambition led to her trying to collect feminist endorsements in order to buttress her entirely undemocratic and intellectually poisonous claim that women should vote for her just because she’s a woman.
By that logic, every Jew should vote for Bernie. Right Hillary?
At least I can take some comfort from the fact that there is no way this sort of thing can actually hurt Bernie’s chances. In fact, they only strengthen them, because just like with Obama, Hillary is up against someone with absolutely unimpeachable integrity, and it is clearly driving her nuts because she had no real mud to fling at him so whatever she concocts bounces right back at her without leaving a mark on Bernie Sanders, who, like Hillary’s husband Bill so long ago, just has to stand there and keep cool and let his attackers damn themselves with their open hostility and naked agenda.
This is doubly true because Bernie refuses to say a single bad thing about Hillary. That must be driving her up a wall and down again.
I can’t help feeling like the Hillary versus Bernie struggle has really illustrated the split between real liberals and the liberal-ish. Everything Bernie stands for is rock solid liberalism and there is no good reason for any real liberal to support Hillary over him. At this point, her entire platform is basically “um, same thing as Bernie, but with a vagina?”. She not only has no personal dirt to dig up and fling at him, she can’t argue against him on policy either. She knows that just won’t fly. His platform is just too popular. Everything he promises would genuinely make the USA a better place to live (and, frankly, finally bring them up to par with the rest of the developed world) and is favored by a majority of Americans of all political stripes.
She can’t argue against it without drawing even more attention to the fact that she is way too cozy with the one percent. That’s why she refuses to release video or transcripts of any of the talks she gave to behemoths of evil like Goldman Sachs over the years. People who were at one of them said she praised Goldman Sachs to the high heavens for all the good work they do, practically sucking their collective cocks for a cool quarter million bucks.
Talk about a happy ending…. or should I say, money shot.
So it was hilarious in a tragic way that she responded to questions about these talks by saying she would reveal all “just as soon as all the other candidates did, including Senator Sanders”.
To which Bernie replied by instantly releasing a full transcript of a talk he did, as well as his fee, which was $500, which he gave to charity.
Take that, you bile spewing harpy. I am sure you tell yourself that everyone who doesn’t like you is a sexist Republican who hates babies and kicks puppies, but the truth is, there are a lot of people who see through your political charade and see that you are a horrible person with no true convictions, just an all-consuming ambition and a willingness, even an eagerness, to degrade, dismember, and destroy anyone who gets in her way.
What we need are people who can get close to her via town hall events and press conferences to ask her pertinent and seemingly harmless questions designed to provoke her well documented mean streak by questioning her integrity. All it would take is one moment where her eyes blaze with fury at the questioner and she looks like she wants to eat them alive to sink her chances forever.
And the best part is, she would know she had done it to herself.
I will talk to you nice people against tomorrow.
Someone on “The Young Turks” had this theory that the subtext of Hillary’s women-support-women strategy is that she appeals to all the older women (and there are a lot of them in the Baby Boom, plus Generation X is now middle-aged) who know what it’s like to age out of the sex-object zone. People listen to you when you’re a 20- or 30-year-old woman because you’re attractive, but then you exit breeding age and they’re like “Whatever, Grandma.” Middle-aged women find themselves losing power in the marriage, in the workforce, and in society in general as they lose their looks. Older women voters feel like Hillary (famously cheated on in the 1990s) is one of them. This would also explain the hostility to young female Millennial voters who aren’t for Hillary because they can see she’s another establishment candidate. “Sure, sure, be idealistic now, but when your tits start to sag and no one will listen to you, then you’ll understand.”
That was their theory, anyway. I thought it was interesting.
That’s definitely an interesting angle on it. It makes sense to me. There’s a lot of Hillaries in the world and they are going to vote for the candidate they identify with.
Not, you know, the one that’s actually got the right message and the right ideas and might actually change things. 😛