Here is a new excellent thread about Hillary Clinton

Here is a new excellent thread about Hillary Clinton.

Let's talk for a second about #ImWithHer and #ImStillWithHer, and why women who weren't even Hillary fans are drawn to those phrases. 1/

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

I was Team Obama in '08, but didn't feel anything one way or the other about HRC. She had pros and cons. That was about it. 2/

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

Then 2016 came around, and again, I did peer reviewed research, looked at the primary field, and was more impressed with Hillary. End of. 3/

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

And much like '08. I assumed even though it was a contentious primary, that people would get their shit together and work for a win. 4/ pic.twitter.com/4tzAw3K0l8

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

See, that's the year that apparently the DNC, who till now was just a figurehead organization, RAN THE WHOLE WORLD AND RIGGED IT ALL. 5/ pic.twitter.com/f28ovInwED

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

Now she and her supporters were corporate whores, now it was a gyno-cabal out to coronate a queen, now it was A CONSPIRACY. 6/

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

I'm old enough to have worked on 7 Pres elections since I turned 18. There's always hurt feelings after primary. But NOTHING like this. 7/ pic.twitter.com/uldWqljZgw

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

And sure, you can blame bots and twitter's utter contempt for enforcing their own TOS, but this was also coming from well-known progs. 8/ pic.twitter.com/kfNn1j4jd9

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

And as we came into fall, women everywhere were starting to realize - we were fighting two sides - GOP and a sector of the left. 9/

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

Suddenly, we found ourselves having to fight misinformation and straight up lies from those we thought were "allies". 10/

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

We were told to "go high", to trust people to do the right thing, but Nov 8 came around and...our "allies" threw us under the bus. 11/ pic.twitter.com/fiO3iYB3Uw

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

We watched a woman who had achieved an enormous amount and who left as SoS with a historic approval rating dragged through the mud. 12/

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

We watched progbros parrot trump talking points, and vice versa, to the point if you covered avatar/bio you couldn't tell difference. 13/

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

We watched her mocked for taking a goddamn walk in the woods while the loser of the primary went on a book tour 2 WEEKS AFTER ELECTION. 14/

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

We watched her being dissected by the media while the two men she BEAT (by 4M and 3M respectively) were handled with kid gloves. 15/

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

FFS Bernie wrote rapey fan fic and trump literally said "grab 'em by the pussy" and I saw hot takes degrading HRC for *Bill's* affair. 16/ pic.twitter.com/YkBC4M8jJv

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

And then we watched her write a book and unleash another torrent of concern troll abuse in the form of calls for "unity". 17/

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

You see, Bernie going on a book tour was "therapy". But magically, her book just "isn't the right time/will tear Dems apart/etc". 18/ pic.twitter.com/8FUYh8QlHR

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

People question her motives, but didn't say boo when 2x Pres loser Mitt Romney made a GD documentary and took it to Sundance. SUNDANCE. 19/ pic.twitter.com/OFVQpIWV0v

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

And the last bit of scales fell from a lot of women's eyes.

If she could be torn down that easily.

So could any of us.

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— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

So we began to see women like me, who were frankly ambivalent about candidate Clinton, loudly defend her, because we see the game now. 21/

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

We see women like Kamala Harris already being put in the cross hairs. We see the muckraking. We see the "allies" pushing debunked lies. 22/ pic.twitter.com/3nwN5Vnzw1

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

So when we say #ImStillWithHer or #ImWithHer, it's for any number of people:

Hillary.
The next woman to be demonized.
Ourselves.

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— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

But there is a silver lining to all this.

We have no fucks left to give.

We will not reward treachery in 2018/2020.

24/

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

We already see it with women donating directly to candidates rather than to the #DNC. #GrabYourWallet is real. 25/

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

We're signing up by the scores to learn how to run for office, and are becoming even more energised to make phone calls/town halls. 26/

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

And we've learned that as we cannot rely on purity politics allies, we can just go around them. We *will* go around them. 27/

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

That's why we're seeing such a push for "unity" now: Those who turned their backs on our health rights, our bodily autonomy, are scared. 28/

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

They KNOW we make the most phone calls, the majority of canvassing. They KNOW they need us. We are the base that gets shit done. 29/

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

They're hoping we'll be meek.

They're hoping we'll forget how they treated her. EVERY her.

They're hoping we'll roll over.

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— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

The next 2-6 years are going to suck. A lot.

We're going to see races that make 2016 look like a tea party.

Remember the end game.

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— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

#ImWithHer. #ImWithYou.

And you know what? For the first time in a long time....#ImWithMe.

Let's do this.

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— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017

And if anyone tells you to stay quiet for unity, you remind them that true unity does not require silence. They are describing control. Fin. pic.twitter.com/lTKEy1eEso

— Shea Wong (@MrsSheaWong) September 11, 2017