When Trump and Hillary are the only 2 choices our political system can produce for us, we are totally screwed. I bash Trump because he is the one in office. But Hillary would also have done a bad job. Don't get me wrong. I think both love America, they just have no idea of how to run the country properly. Trump is proving this in spades. Hillary would have proven it too, had she won. We need to do better next time.
For those who disagree with me, post your pro-Hillary and pro-Trump rants here. :mrgreen:
Hillary Clinton has her flaws, but many of them are vastly exaggerated by her opponents.
I agree with quite a few of her policy positions. Climate change, women's rights, minority rights, some foreign policy matters, most domestic and economic matters. She actually recognizes that government, if properly managed, can actually improve people's lives. The ACA would have been improved, instead of left twisting in the wind. Tax reform probably wouldn't have happened. We wouldn't have to hear about this "border wall" nonsense. There is no question that the response to Charlottesville would be different. We'd have better candidates for SCOTUS vacancies.
Politicians always overpromise, so there is no question that she wouldn't deliver every single thing promised on the campaign. E.g. I don't believe any politician can truly rescue West Virginia from its economic weakness, and it's unlikely any politician can truly defeat the rise of opiates (in particular, get rid of fentanyl, which is responsible for most of the overdoses). The only way to fix economic inequality today is to whack massive taxes on the rich, and pour those tax dollars into education for the poor. But she'd do better in terms of policy overall.
In terms of temperament: It should be pretty obvious from her tenure in the Senate and Secretary of State she can handle the duties of the office. She would have gotten along fine with our allies, she has a decent track record of working with Republicans, she certainly has a grasp of the issues and policies.
Differences from Trump. She wouldn't embarrass our nation on a near-daily basis. She doesn't fall for conspiracy theories. She would never have hired people like, or equivalent to, Bannon or Flynn or Gorka or Sessions, Priebus, "The Mooch," Spicey, $#!! DeVoss or a dozen other miscreants who have no business in public service. However corrupt people thing she is, she couldn't have held a candle to what Trump does on a regular basis. She would not have discussed top secret responses to North Korean missile tests in the middle of a
freaking private club, next to private citizens with cell phones in hand argh argh
OK, I have to stop that part, or I'll end up grinding my teeth.
One other point. As dysfunctional as our political system seems (a result in no small part of the framers designing a vetocracy, and trying to make a central government that can barely enact change), the attempts to burn DC to the ground and wreck the status quo are utterly counter-productive and self-defeating. It isn't Washington that gets hurt, it's us. That wouldn't have happened if Clinton was in office.
