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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton destroys Hobby Lobby decision to cheers, applause [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)ill vote for Hillary. California is one of the bluest states in the nation. If Hillary is our candidate and if her election in California is so close that my vote would make a difference, she would lose nationally whether I vote for her or not.
I have always, always voted for Democrats for president when I lived in this country (and I am 71 so I voted for a lot of Democratic presidential candidates). I think it would be very sad if we nominate Hillary Clinton. I think we need Elizabeth Warren to run for president and to pick as her running mate someone whose strength is foreign policy.
We need a president who understands what is wrong economically in our country and who can lead us toward correcting our economic course. I believe that Elizabeth Warren may be our last hope for saving our very creative capitalist system. She believes in regulation, but not in government management of companies or over-management of the economy.
The disparity in incomes in our country is too great. I think that Hillary and Bill Clinton recognize that fact, but I do not think that either of them really understands why our economic disparity is so great. I do not think that Hillary Clinton can distance herself from her friends who represent very powerful interests that are addicted to the profits they think they are making from our current economic disparity.
Of course, our economic disparity will come back to bite those whose narrow-minded thinking on economic matters does not permit them to understand the interconnectedness and interdependency of all of us in the American economy. But I do not think that Hillary Clinton will be able to offend her close friends and neighbors (and constituents when she was in the Senate) on Wall Street and the banks and big business to advocate for and push what we need to get our country back on the right track.
Hillary was Secretary of State during part of the time that the TPP and the Keystone Pipeline deals were in development. That is not a good sign.