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Walk away

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Sun May 29, 2016, 09:56 AM May 2016

What it means for a Millennial to be "In Her Corner" by Trevor LaFauci | [View all]

".......I've found that having an opinion contrary to your peers can make you a literal target for those who disagree with you. I've ended up on a "hit-list" of Hillary Clinton supporters courtesy of an anonymous Bernie Sanders supporter. I've ended up having my professional information shared thanks to Markos Moulitsis' inability to control the rabid Bernie Sanders supporters who have infested his Daily Kos website. I've found multiple new friends on Twitter who feel that I'm either a paid Hillary shill, a paid David Brock shill, a Hillary troll, a Hillary bot, a piece of feces engaged in coitus, or something in between. I've learned to ignore phone calls and text messages from numbers I don't recognize. I've seen my progressive peers harassed at their places of employment. I've seen progressive heroes like John Lewis, Dolores Huerta, Planned Parenthood, The Human Rights Campaign, Barbara Boxer, Barney Frank, and Elizabeth Warren attacked for their views. I often fall asleep at night contemplating if these things are even worth fighting for and I've only been at this for five months.

Hillary Clinton has had to endure all this for twenty-five years.

That, that, right there is why I will continue to fight for this woman. Because for twenty-five years she's endured these kind of attacks on herself, her family, her friends, and her own progressive heroes. Republicans and Bernie Sanders aren't saying anything that hasn't said before. It literally took Donald Trump ten seconds to come up with the "Crooked Hillary" monicker. That's the idea that Republicans began planting in 1992 and our media and Bernie Sanders and his supporters have bought it hook, line, and sinker. Today, Clinton has to fight a three-front war: her Democratic opponent, her Republican opponent, and the mainstream media. Yet despite all that, here she is, just over a week away from officially becoming the first female presidential nominee of a major political party in our nation's history. To quote Joe Biden, "That's a big f'ing deal!"......."


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