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In reply to the discussion: How come almost everybody on here doesn't like Hillary? [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)People who spend more time paying attention to politics than most people.
Who pays more attention to politics than most?
Two sorts of folks - strongly partisan folks and people who have reasons to want to change the status quo.
HRC is fine for the strongly partisan types. They did the polling, she most handily beats anyone on team red.
But HRC, while 'better than' the Republican option, still represents the 'status quo' on a lot of issues to those interested in changing the status quo. Been in politics her whole life, hawkish interventionist, supports policies that continue to provide crumbs to the poor while money flows like water up to the wealthy. Worked to help her husband on pro-corporate, anti-labour trade policies that helped destroy the middle class, continued to work on such while part of the state department.
So for the 'anti-status quo' crowd, there's more a difference of degree than kind separating her from some Republicans.
If you get a theocrat candidate put up on the right, though, expect even the asq crowd to vote for her.