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In reply to the discussion: Why Do Hillary Supporters Lose Their Minds When You Criticize Her? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)unreliable. Hillary cannot be trusted. Bernie can. They know that.
Hillary supporters are Democrats on social issues.
But they are not the strong Democrats that Bernie supporters are on economic issues.
Hillary is OK but not sterling on social issues. She was slow to agree with a lot of the liberal stances on say, gay marriage, but she is sort of there.
But she is very weak on economic issues. She is vague on how she plans to deal with the huge disparity in wealth or the sleaziness and exaggerated risk-taking in our financial sector; she says universal, single-payer health insurance is impossible (because the big money her donors have come in part from the profits on our current system most likely); she is for getting some of the corporate money out of campaign finance but hedges so you know she doesn't want to get all of it out. And when it comes to the TPP, she is totally talking out of both sides of her mouth. It's those trade tribunals that are the problem as well as the lack of labor protections. She misses that because underneath it all, she is pro-TPP. In other words, her views on the issues are sleazy compared to Bernie's.
On top of that, to me, she projects nervousness, has a problem controlling her temper although she can master it when she really puts her mind to it and has shown poor judgment on many issues.
I live in California. If she is the candidate, there are enough people here who will vote for her for many reasons so that my vote will make no difference to her. A lot of the Bernie supporters I talk to will never vote for her.
She is a big problem for Democrats.
I have been a Democrat all my life. And I feel that the Democratic Party is moving away from me into indifference on economic issues, complacency and irrelevancy, and it makes me very sad. Hillary is a symptom of that move away from caring about the economic reality of so many Democratic voters. It will translate into low turnout. If Trump is the Republican candidate, we may get a decent Democratic showing at the polls, but, unless Bernie is our candidate, Democrats will be turning out to vote against Trump, not to vote for Hillary.
In some ways, incredibly, Trump is appealing to those who are economically frustrated more than Hillary is. That is really bad news for Democrats.