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[hlthe2b]

1. I get you. I am too focused on my feelings toward those who TWICE (or even three times) enabled

this Hitler in Yellow Hair in the White House to take on any of our own who only reluctantly voted for HRC. Priorities. The latter are guilty of idiocy. The former may have us reliving the Third Reich.

[Karma13612]

2. Excuse me?

I voted for Hillary Clinton when she ran against Trump. What was going on in the voting booth is completely irrelevant. She got my vote because the alternative was a scoundrel.

Do I like her??? No particularly, BUT I VOTED FOR HER WHEN IT MATTERED.

When she ran in 2008, I voted for Obama in the primary. I felt he was more to my liking.

[Skittles]

3. no apology would be good enough for me

they can fuck themselves FOREVER

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. So it's not just actions, but personal sentiments as well? Huh.

[W_HAMILTON]

6. Because odds are their personal sentiments were expressed often, widely, and for months on end during the election...

...and thus outweighed, if not outright negated, their vote.

"No single raindrop thinks it's responsible for the flood."

[yourout]

5. What difference does it make as long as you actually voted for Hillary?

[mcar]

7. The difference is that the attitude OP describes

ran down our nominee and added to the media maligning of her - which depressed the vote.

I will never understand the hatred this good woman has endured at the hands of purported members of her own party. Here on DU prior to the 2016 GE, I and many others were derided as "vagina voters." HRC was called, by purported members of her party, a war monger, corrupt, and a whore.

[JI7]

18. She was booed during the convention when she

was giving her acceptance speech.

It's when the shit Tulsi Gabbard and others like her infiltrated our party to attack our nominee.

[mcar]

25. I will die angry about it

Stephanie Miller.

[W_HAMILTON]

8. Because those constantly shitting on her most likely did more harm to her than help with their one vote.

[yourout]

14. I think women who voted for Trump were a far bigger problem..

And there were a lot of them.
Even after the grab them by the "kitty" tape.

[SnoopDog]

9. Yes this is the most important thing to be discussing here....

It's not like our democracy is being discontinued...

[karynnj]

10. The " hold my nose" complaint has been used for decades

It is often the case that the party's nominee is not your choice and occasionally someone you really were not for. In my case, almost every 1992 possibility was preferable to Bill Clinton. It never occurred to me to whine about holding my nose.

For me, the nominee that I became progressively more convinced he was a great man who would be a great President was John Kerry. On DU and other left leaning sites, there were far more people speaking of "holding their noses" than happened with Hillary or Biden.

I know it hurts when people say that, but the key is whether they vote for our nominee.

[Kaleva]

11. Hillary was shredded here in 2008

It wasn't much better in 2016

[xmas74]

16. I took a 2 year break after 2008

The hatred towards her was horrendous.

[Scrivener7]

12. Meh. I couldn't care less about an apology. They led us here.

No applogy changes that.

[Raine]

13. So??? If they voted for her how they felt about her shouldn't matter

What about someone who didn't vote for her at all.

[Ping Tung]

15. When we vote a re we allowed to grit our teeth? Sigh? Swear? Roll our eyes? Complain? Have negative thoughts

about political candidates/? Would we be condemned to your eternal hatred for doing any of the above?

Or, would you prefer that we just don't vote for them?

I've voted in 16 presidential elections. I've never voted in even one that had a "perfect" in my eyes candidate.

I voted for Hillary even though I thought her too moderate and a weak candidate. As I recall, I indulged in some swearing before voting. I'm not an ideologue, true believer, or robot.

Hate away. Better you than me.

[ananda]

17. Well, that was me, and I'm not sorry.

I voted for her, but I really liked Sanders better.

So sue me.

[Meowmee]

19. I rarely whine or complain, I just vote

The problem is some of these people likely were badmouthing her when she was a candidate which hurt her chances of getting more than enough votes for the ec. The margins were pretty much those green voters and non voters etc. that lost the 3 essential swing states as I recall. Even so she won the popular vote. In a popular democracy she would have been president. Hrc was the only one I was ever excited to vote for and I supported her in the primaries.

[Gaugamela]

20. I don't particularly care about your feelings either way. Nor does your rant sound anything like

what Kurt Vonnegut would say or stand for.

[Morbius]

21. I will admit, right now.

I held my nose to vote for Bill Clinton in 1996 (I voted for Perot in '92; I was young and stupid). And I don't apologize for that; I didn't trust him then and I don't trust him now. Hillary, I like and admire; Bill, not so much.

[AverageJoe]

22. I hope you don't actually hate me

I was a Sanders supporter who gladly and enthusiastically voted for Hillary in the general election, even though she — and Bill — were, and are, both too far to the right for my taste. I will always gladly and enthusiastically vote for the Democratic nominee, even if they were not my choice in the primary.

I’m not sure why we need to be finding ways to divide us at this very dangerous tipping point moment for our democracy, though.

I believe Hillary would have been a great president. For what it’s worth, I think Warren would have been better, and I am hoping against hope that AOC will be our next nominee. She is spectacular.

[Intractable]

23. Unlike Average Joe above, I don't care if hate me.

That's on you. Take it to your grave.

[kentuck]

24. By the way, Trump posted a picture of Hillary on his Truth Social today.

He is setting up his followers to call for Hillary to be arrested next, was my first impression.

[DinahMoeHum]

26. This is totally uncalled for

n/t

[johnnyplankton]

27. I guess I'm hated then.

I was a Bernie guy and I think the Democratic establishment railroaded him. I held my nose and voted for Hilary.