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In reply to the discussion: People like Susan Sarandon make more sense when you understand their real motives. [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)I voted for Clinton but I don't assume that anyone who didn't vote for Clinton must wish the country ill or must have been getting paid off by the Kochs or Soros or whatever other boogeyman is conjured up. (I know you didn't allege a payoff in this particular instance but that's a common example of the same sort of reasoning.)
People are complicated. Their decisions, including their political decisions, arise from a multitude of factors. Unless you've invented a mind-reading machine, you have no basis for your smear of a longtime activist who's done a lot of good.
By the way, as to your charge that people like her "prefer the United States being governed by the far right," you might note that she was one of the many Nader 2000 supporters who, in 2004, realized the error of their ways:
That is not the action of someone who wants a far-right government.