I'm interested in knowing the "why" behind your vote. Please choose an answer that matches your thought process on your vote for Hillary Clinton.
If this were any other election, I doubt I would be voting. The reason why is not so much a problem with Hillary specifically, but rather a problem with our political system as it stands in its entirety.
But this is not any election. This is an election with a dangerously ignorant bigot running, and fuelling a divisive coup unlike anything we've seen since the Civil War. This is seriously dangerous. And as much as I disapprove of the political system as it stands, here are the facts as far as I've been able to discern.
Hillary is no worse than your average politician, and in some cases, possibly better. Really. She is no less ethical. She is no less honest (and in fact more honest than most, apparently). It is a common cultural narrative that she is somehow the embodiment of evil in politics, but the fact is that she's been getting swiftboated for 25 years simply for being a rather outspoken woman (her approval ratings are only low when she's running for office, surprise surprise), and STILL no one has been able to uncover her doing anything seriously wrong (don't even talk to me about the email "scandal" -- it's a bunch of smoke inflating what was simply a dumb mistake, and yet she's being treated worse than Petraeus, who committed ACTUAL crimes).
Even I have been suckered into this tabloid-fuelled social narrative, and it took me weeks of really objective reading and serious self-questioning to get a better handle on the way Hillary has been painted in US society as the wicked witch, and how totally divorced it is from reality. I was brainwashed into that **** as a little kid before she was even a politician, and it's nonsense.
So, that out of the way, how does she stack up as a politician, within the system as it exists?
Extraordinarily well. In fact, she is probably the most qualified politician to ever run for president in the US. That's just a fact. She has an amazing resume, and has really done fairly well in all of her many roles.
In the system as it stands, Hillary is a great candidate for president. Hell, I like how boring she is. I like that she'd rather talk about policy particulars than go stumping. I don't care about stumping. I care about ideas. And the more boring she is, the more steady she'll be as a president. That's all good stuff to me.
I just hate the system as it stands. Her being just as ethical as most is not very ethical. Her being just as honest as most is not very honest.
I have no problem with her brain power or her resume. I have a problem with the very fact that she can exist so well in such a corrupted system. Yes, she's corrupt. Not any worse than most, but she is. She has to be, or she wouldn't be successful.
But then again, that's the same complaint I have with literally every successful politician in the entire country, not just Hillary.
And she is running against a man who is determined to start a civil war.
I can't not vote for her, for the sake of the well-being of my loved ones if nothing else. And to be perfectly honest, I don't feel bad for doing so. She's going to do fine. If I am going to feel forced to vote in a system I don't approve of, I can't think of very many candidates I'd rather vote for than her, frankly. Having her as the counterpoint to Trump makes it REALLY easy for me. I have no doubts at all about her ability to do the job.
...In the system as it stands. *sigh*
