2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: For those saying you won't vote for the Democratic nominee [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Bernie Sanders.
I have been a Democrat all my life. Wore my Adlai Stevenson button to school and started campaigning when McGovern ran.
I will vote for all Democrats on my ballot, but not for Hillary.
I will vote for Bernie, gladly and proudly vote for Bernie if he is nominated.
By the way, I'm a woman.
I do not like Hillary's lukewarm stands on the issues. In my view she is Republican Lite.
I do not trust her with my Social Security or Medicare.
I do not trust her with regard to much of everything.
She is a lawyer. Surely at some point in her life she took family law. Yet she told an audience (I have heard the video.) that marriage is a religious rite or something to that effect. Any lawyer knows that marriage is a legal matter. A marriage, even a common law marriage, has to be either registered or recognized by the law. A religious marriage has no legal significance until it has been recognized by the laws of the state in which the couple are residing.
And on and on, issue after issue, Hillary's thinking and statements are inconsistent and not well thought through. Another example is her vote on the IWR. And she voted for that after a visit from Code Pink women who had been in Iraq and warned her that it was the wrong thing to vote yes on.
On the other side we have Bernie. Bernie does not take huge donations from the rich and wealthy or from corporations. The closest thing he has to a superpac is the support of union members, especially the Nurses Association. Members as I understand it can only give $100 to that. Thus, the nurses who are members of the Nurses Association also do not give over $2000, which I understand is the limit on the size of a donation.
Bernie is right on the issues -- on single payer (I lived in Europe for years and loved single payer -- best way to pay for health insurance), on free tuition at state colleges and other schools (see the poll here on DU with 94% of the over 180 answering supporting this concept), paid family leave for new parents, paid from a small tax on working people . . . . I agree with all his stands on the issues, every one.
Hillary -- I simply do not agree with her stands on the issues. She is not bold. She is giving in to the Republicans before even being elected. That is the same mistake that Obama, wonderful as he is, has made.
So, no, I will not stand with Hillary. I will stand with every other Democrat on my ticket, but NOT WITH HILLARY.
She is, I understand, a very nice lady if you meet her. But she is not on my side. She is on the side of the oligarchs and the Republicans, and I will not vote for her.
I have compromised over and over. I worked very hard to get Obama elected, first in election protection in 2008 and then registering voters in 2012. No way will I vote for Hilary. It's time to nominate a real Democrat, and that is, in my opinion, Bernie and not Hillary.