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[Peace Patriot]

24. I'm a 70 yr old woman and a strong Bernie Sanders supporters.

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I'm also a lifelong Democratic supporter, voter and activist. Campaigned for JFK and the first CA Governor Brown in 1960, when I was 16.

I've been through quite a lot, as to being a woman from the 1960s through 2016. I won't go into it here, though, because I find this obsession with self...this I, I, I, that I hear from Hillary and that suffuses this OP article to be incredibly myopic, when the lives of so many women and children, here and abroad, have been outright destroyed by Clinton policy, and in the case of the Iraq War, slaughtered by the tens of thousands; in the case of Libya and Syria, raped, slaughtered, permanently displaced; in the case of Honduras, leftist women raped and beaten in prison, thousands fired from jobs for their objection to the military coup that Clinton supported, thousands of children adversely affected; and, here at home, millions of women suffering poverty due to cruel Clinton welfare policy, especially black women; millions of black men in prison, lives, families, communities devastated, due to the Clintons' corrupt, murderous, failed "war on drugs" and mass incarceration policies; also thousands of women lost their homes, jobs, dignity, in the Crash of '08, which was caused in part by Bill Clinton's axing of the New Deal law that regulated banks and speculators (Glass-Steagall), and millions of jobs lost to NAFTA and "free trade for the rich," destroying communities across America, and badly affecting women workers and mothers and children in particular, as well as men.

Hillary Clinton is receiving money from numerous big corporations that benefited from all of the above.

I also find it extremely obnoxious that Hillary Clinton has Henry Kissinger as a friend and adviser. I lived through the slaughter of millions in Southeast Asia and the deaths of almost 60,000 U.S. soldiers. I protested it vigorously, along with millions of others, to no avail. Like Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, this war criminal is still running free. It's as if Clinton had two Rumsfeld's as adviser! He killed more than Rumsfeld! And he also supported regimes in Latin America that threw leftist women and men out of airplanes to their deaths, who tortured and murdered thousands, and who took the babies of imprisoned pregnant leftist women away from them, killed the mother and gave the babies away to fascist families.

My personal story is important to me, of course. And, in fact, because of it, I do have sympathy for Hillary Clinton as a woman and as a human being. But her economic policy and foreign policy are extremely detrimental to women in particular. She enthusiastically supported every policy of Bill's that harmed women in particular, and has now done many things as a senator and sec of state that have brought horror to women's lives. And she has become very, very corrupt.

She represents the 1% in all of their various kinds of ruination and destruction of other peoples' lives.

To vote for Hillary because you've experienced sexism at the office, and you sympathize with Hillary because you think she must be suffering from sexism, too--as the OP author states, in an annoyingly self-centered article--is so cold or so uninformed that it makes me cringe for the author. Is this what feminism has become--this oblivious self-involvement?