2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary Supporters - Honest Question - Are you a Center-Right Democrat? [View all]earthside
(6,960 posts)For many it is all about "First Woman President!"
They will deny it and object, but the way they shift around and rationalize all of Hillary's flip-flops; her clear preference for bankers, and Wall Street super investors, Walmart-type corporatists; her conservative and neocon tilt, leaves only one logical explanation: "First Woman President" and it is Hillary's turn matters more than being a good solid progressive and/or liberal.
There is some kind of odd generational loyalty to Mrs. Clinton, probably because they were denied eight years ago and it may have something to do with a sense that the 1960s-1970s era of the Women's Lib movement is owed some kind of reward and Hillary (bizarrely in my estimation) is the symbol of that yearning.
Hillary Clinton is all about the advancement of herself; she is one of those Democrats who believes that the nation is inherently conservative and that the biggest obstacle to her success is the liberal/left base of the Democratic Party. She is at best a Rockefeller Repuglican if she has much ideology at all. I have great concerns over her being president for these reasons, there is something rather Nixonian about her character in my view and see only political crisis if heaven forbid she ever get elected.