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In reply to the discussion: How influential was Susan Sarandon in the 2016 election? [View all]sheshe2
(98,528 posts)5. Susan Sarandon: If 'Dangerous' Hillary Would've Won, 'We Would Be at War'
During the 2016 presidential election, Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon was a fervent Bernie Sanders supporter. And she really, really, REALLY disliked Hillary Clinton. Before Sanders lost the Democratic nomination to Clinton, Sarandon told MSNBCs Chris Hayes that she didnt think she could vote for Hillary in a two-person race with Donald Trump. She also told Hayes that some people feel that Donald Trump will bring the revolution immediately, if he gets in.
Following the election Sarandon eventually supported and voted for Green candidate Jill Stein the actress has taken quite a bit of heat from the center-left over her refusal to support Clinton and her insistence that a Trump presidency wouldnt have been much worse than Hillarys. In another interview with Hayes in February, she said Trumpselection made people more awake and involved. Meanwhile, in an April appearance on The Late Show, she echoed those sentiments, stating that people are more energized with him in office.
Well, a recent interview with The Guardian is sure to further raise the ire of moderates, Democrats and Clinton supporters. Why? Oh, just because Sarandon said that Clinton is extremely dangerous and would have led the country into war.
Following the election Sarandon eventually supported and voted for Green candidate Jill Stein the actress has taken quite a bit of heat from the center-left over her refusal to support Clinton and her insistence that a Trump presidency wouldnt have been much worse than Hillarys. In another interview with Hayes in February, she said Trumpselection made people more awake and involved. Meanwhile, in an April appearance on The Late Show, she echoed those sentiments, stating that people are more energized with him in office.
Well, a recent interview with The Guardian is sure to further raise the ire of moderates, Democrats and Clinton supporters. Why? Oh, just because Sarandon said that Clinton is extremely dangerous and would have led the country into war.
https://www.mediaite.com/online/susan-sarandon-if-dangerous-hillary-clinton-wouldve-won-we-would-be-at-war/
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She is an asshole, why are we even talking about a woman that trashed our Democratic candidate and in the end voted for a Russian asset by the name of Jill Stein.
Here she is dining with Putin.

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According to a 2017 article in The Guardian, I'd say Sarandon was pretty anti-Hillary.
George McGovern
Friday
#2
She helped, as did Nina Turner, David Sirota, Briana Joy Gray, Cornell West, etc
lostincalifornia
Friday
#3
What is your point? Famous people by definition have influence to some degree.....
ColoringFool
Friday
#15
"Always Bet on the Wrong Horse, My Life as an Activist Against Progress and Democracy," a memoir by Susan Sarandon.
betsuni
Friday
#20
People try to brush it off as just something a celebrity said once, but it's a movement against the Democratic Party.
betsuni
Saturday
#30
That has happened every election in my life. Some celebrity says something about some candidate.
Autumn
Friday
#22
Sarandon and Tulsi Gabbard spread the attack-from-the-left that Democrats are dangerous warmongers.
betsuni
Saturday
#25
She was an emblematic example of a problem we had, have and will continue to have on the fringes of the "tHe leFt".
FascismIsDeath
Saturday
#26
I literally don't know one person who was even aware of anything she was saying, let alone influenced by it.
Mike Niendorff
Saturday
#28