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In reply to the discussion: I don't know what Hillary actually believes in. [View all]MineralMan
(151,100 posts)Take the Keystone pipeline, for example: Oil will move, one way or another. On one hand, we have trains of rail car tankers moving through our major cities, all loaded with crude. Or, that oil can move through a pipeline through rural lands. The oil will be transported, and there's really nothing a President can do to prevent it from being transported. So the pipeline isn't a binary issue. If you're against the pipeline, the oil will still move, but on dangerous rail lines, where disasters have already occurred.
The lack of a simple binary choice is present in almost every decision about national-level policy. There are very few binary choices out there at the national level, frankly. Women's rights is one of them, and Hillary is on the correct side on that one. Right now, she's not in a position where she has any role in any decisions, so all she can do is state her position on things, but that position cannot be a binary one on most issues. The world just doesn't work that way.