Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forum"A Conscience of Convenience", very good article at The People's View
This article does a good job explaining why not voting for the whoever is the Democratic Party candidate for POTUS this year is an act of extreme selfishness.
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/5/6/a-conscience-of-convenience
"I am distressed hearing many of Sanders' allies say, "I survived Bush for 8 years. I can survive Trump." Im asking you to consider who didn't survive Bush. Thousands of poor without health care, 9/11 and Katrina victims, young American men and women serving in the Middle East along with thousands upon thousands of Iraqi and Afghanistan citizens, and victims of gun violence. Yes, some progressives could probably survive Trump from the safety of their white privileged lives, but many of their fellow Americans will not.
The Supreme Court won't survive nor will the right to vote. The Dream Act will never be born. The middle class will be extinguished along with the dreams of millions of young people hoping for a college education or even college debt relief.
Women's rights will be further eroded as the unfettered Republicans legislate away our rights to control our bodies, redefine rape, prevent fair pay and gender equality. The misogyny and sexism on display now will grow increasingly more intense."
It is time for the Democratic Party to unit and stop failing for the right wing tactic of dividing and conquering the Democratic Party. Since Hubert Humphrey every Democratic Party candidate for President has been attacked from the left for not being liberal enough. It is seems that this may actually be a highly effective strategy from the right wing dirty tricksters to discourage Democratic voters and harming all Democratic candidates up and down the ballot.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)greatlaurel
(2,004 posts)pnwmom
(108,925 posts)sheshe2
(83,333 posts)Thank you greatlaurel.
greatlaurel
(2,004 posts)sheshe2
(83,333 posts)Thanks so much for posting this.
Yes, it is a good quote.
Sparkly
(24,141 posts)Exactly right, and goes right to the disparity in demographics of her voters vs. his.
(PS -- I argued the same for Gore and Kerry.... and the stakes have risen since then.)
ismnotwasm
(41,919 posts)Quayblue
(1,045 posts)Cha
(295,899 posts)A Conscience of Convenience",
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/5/6/a-conscience-of-convenience