I Truly Believe That There Are People Who Will Not Vote for Hillary Clinton

[jeff47]

64. Try to consider other people's experiences

It's not that I want different things. It's that voting for Democrats has a very poor record of getting me closer to those things. And the current Democratic party leadership does not show much interest in changing that.

I've voted for Democrats every election since I could vote....in 1992. I have missed one primary and one general election due to registration issues - I moved too close to the election to vote from my new address in both cases.

I've received NAFTA and other free-trade deals, tax cuts for businesses, deregulation, shredding of the safety net, massive increases in the supposedly temporary H1B visa, abortion is icky, unions are icky. There has been a constant insistence that my issues will be dealt with later. It's been 20 years, and there's halfhearted attempts to start thinking about someday addressing my issues. For example, very high tuition is bad and Democratic politicians are now willing to shake their heads about how bad it is.

Even when they do get closer (ex. the ACA, reducing interest rates on student loans), the current Democratic leadership spends years desperately apologizing for getting closer to what I want.

We have 50 years of shit to clean up. We can't get the current leadership to acknowledge that something smells, much less acknowledge the giant pile of shit. If a few more turds fall on the pile in order to get the leadership to give a damn, so be it.