2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why I have changed my mind [View all]calimary
(81,220 posts)I know it's not what your heart desires, Plucketeer. But sometimes in my own life, I've found that letting my head lead, and making a head-over-heart decision, has turned out to be the better choice by far. At the moment, I honestly can't remember any head-over-heart decision I ever made that DIDN'T turn out to be the better choice by far. But that's just me.
I know it's hard. Maybe some of the following will help? Humbly submitted for your consideration...
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/07/hillary-clinton-i-know
And this one - from Mother Jones magazine, an outlet that's had a lot of credibility re: support of Bernie Sanders.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/08/hillary-clinton-one-americas-most-honest-politicians
I'm hoping the Dem convention last week helped introduce Hillary to people who have only ever seen her through the clouded and slimed lenses of the propaganda machine that the wrong-wingers have stoked against her for about a quarter century. She's NOT the Devil. She's NOT some monster. She's NOT corrupt, or corrupted. She's NOT evil. Or any of that other shit that's been slung at her nonstop. I've watched, utterly dumbfounded, while that woman was utterly persecuted for all this time. It's made her tough, resolved, more focused, battle-tested, and with skin thicker than the width of Trump Tower. And she IS on our side. That's actually where she STARTED.