15th September 2016, 10:18 PM
Quote:She's highly qualified, very intelligent, tons of relevant experience, and is 2 points ahead of a literal idiot who is probably not qualified to be an assistant manager at Wal-Mart.
This right here is exactly my problem with her. Clinton, by all rights, SHOULD be the progressive candidate that gets things done. However, she's got a track record of bending over backwards for backwards people. Corruption is the only word for it. That doesn't mean I think she's an evil money grubbing politician, it means that her values have been weathered away by a system rife with corruption. By that I mean that age old problem of trying to do the right thing, and in the process of trying to do that right thing, you compromise, because it seems like it's the only way to get it done. Time and time again, and now that corruption is so bad it's seeping out into the general populace, and getting average people to say "well, she lied but all politicians lie, I mean, that's just what they have to do to get the job done". Have we all as a people just given up on moral behavior? I'm not talking about religion, I'm talking about the general notion that sometimes it's better to fail in your objective than become the thing you hate. We USED to believe that. Heck, there's half a dozen Star Trek episodes where the captain would rather blow up their own ship than do something unethical, because it ALWAYS seems like a small sacrifice at the time, and it always turns out to be that road to hell.
Look, I'm going to vote for Clinton, because of all the things you said, but corruption is corruption, and while we don't have much in the way of a choice this time, I'm not seeing Hillary as being a two term president. She's not the first, but every time we make an argument like that, it just gets worse. At some point, a stand has to be taken, and as public as every little thing is this cycle, it's certainly going to be even worse the next. The democrats would be wise to not just automatically nominate her next time, I think.
But hey, I could be wrong. Clinton could turn her back on the corporate backers, and it would be glorious if she did so. She could be the president she dreamed of being when she was in her 20's, and I would welcome it. In 4 years, if she was behind a number of major pushes for progressive policies, even if they failed at the legislative level, I'd change my mind on her.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)