It is either Hillary Clinton or a Republican as the next POTUS & this is why

[Whiskeytide]

32. I agree that people vote contrary to their interests...

..., but again, I think that's because they have been conditioned to do so by the daily out-pouring of "we are a center right" country. But ask them about the right to choose. Ask them about corporate dollars in the election process. Ask them about the environment. Ask them about the separation of church and state. Ask them about marriage equality. Ask them about hate crimes. Ask them about racial inequality. Ask them about a woman's right to earn what a man earns in the same job. Ask them about immigration.

What you get is "well, of course I agree with THAT, but the (insert applicable advocacy group here) take it too far"...

That "too far" is what has beaten into the electorate's head by the media and our politicians. "I think a woman should earn the same, but Rush says the Femi-nazis have gone too far". "I think the gays should be able to marry if they want, but my representative says they'll be marrying goats next..."

So, most of my republican friends are actually progressives, they just can't see it, or they don't want to admit it. But they are.