I am writing this as a Bernie supporter, because I genuinely have questions for Clinton supporters. I’m trying to do this is a civil way, and I hope it’s taken that way. These questions are after 24 years of watching Clinton.
Frankly, apart from her being a women, what do you see in her? After 24 years I have no idea what her core values are. Monday night she was a progressive and Tuesday afternoon she said she was in the middle. Last week she was against national health care, Monday night she was for it. She won’t give a solid answer on TPP. This happens on so many issues. What are her core values?
How can she be against Citizens United, when she uses it to it’s highest potential? She says she took Wall Street money because of 9/11. How can she hold them accountable if she takes so much of their money? How can she defend taking money from the big banks, big Pharma, health insurance companies, etc. and then hold them accountable? I am just really confused where she stands on anything. I have no idea how I would defend her if I were a supporter.
She essentially defends the status quo and wants to make incremental change. How is that going to solve anything. There will still be 29 million Americans without health insurance. There will still be thousands of homeless vets and non vets. We need big changes, not small incremental changes. These are moral issues, they affect people every day. They can’t wait for incremental changes. These moral issues are not political or financial issues. We can always find money for war; surely we can find it for our own people.
She has been using the argument that she can get things done. I believe it’s a false argument. The Republicans hate her; they won’t work with her. Maybe they hate Bernie also; but not to the extent they hate Clinton. Electing Bernie is step one of a long term revolution; that will change the dialogue in this country. That revolution will be people powered by his millions of supporters. We won’t stop when he is elected. We don’t mind rocking the boat and we will not stop. Many of Bernie’s supporters are young and will continue to fight for change and will run for office themselves. Electing Clinton is just continuing the status quo. Bernie is a long term movement. Clinton would not make fundamental changes that are so necessary.
Please explain to me what you see in Clinton. I believe it’s time to restore our core values to the Democratic Party; not expand corporate values.