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Setsuna1972

(332 posts)
3. I wouldn't tell anyone how to vote
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 10:18 AM
Mar 2016

This is still the United States of America,so people are free to vote for their dog as far as I care. If you start telling people how to vote,you might as be one of those Cultural Revolution types that nearly destroyed China back n the 1960s and 70s .

 

Armstead

(47,803 posts)
9. IMO when the Dems are in charge the door is at least open a crack....
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 10:27 AM
Mar 2016

When the GOP is in charge it is closed and has 20 padlocks on it.

Not the best choice but it is what it is.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
10. Believe it or not, most of us do get that viewpoint. Indeed, many of us have advanced it ourselves.
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 11:23 AM
Mar 2016

However, life usually offers more than two options. Also, there is a long-term horror versus a short-term horror to consider.

However, in this matter, people are unlikely to change whatever mindset they have, certainly not in a matter of months.

 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
11. What I have see some of them say is...
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 12:20 PM
Mar 2016

Hillary will be the Dem nominee.

If you don't vote for Hillary then you will get Trump. The old "boogeyman" argument.

The second one may be meaningless to many. It would dependents if they do not believe that either Clinton or Trump represents their interests.

There is a lot of baggage around Clinton that gives rise to the "questionable candidate" factor such as her honesty and integrity. Being caught in lies is not a right wing smear and neither is the appearance of impropriety WRT her home base email server while SOS. The impropriety is in deception and practice. She's also not my pick WRT Israel since they are an active apartheid state while also being engaged in wholesale land theft.

She's not a liberal or progressive...no matter the spin that they put on her.

She's an apparent corporate Wall Street enabler: a 180 from Bernie Sanders

She's just not my choice for anything.
 

reddread

(6,896 posts)
12. I havent heard the SCOTUS! lately
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 07:44 PM
Mar 2016

Seems like any thinking voter would be appalled at the Thomas confirmation hearings and the way women were mistreated during and in the lead up.
At least we know better than to work with the sorts of devious people who forced that nomination upon our bench.
People like David Brock and Joe Biden.

never again.

 

Vote2016

(1,198 posts)
15. C'mon, fracking isn’t all THAT bad, and we don't have a draft anymore so it ain't like YOUR kids are
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 07:57 PM
Mar 2016

gonna have to fight the new wars, and my Wall Street broker throws a huge Christmas party and so the money DOES trickle down eventually, and we don't really WANT a $15 minimum wage because we're past the minimum wage entry level position, and NAFTA brought us all kinds of cheap stuff at the WalMart, didn't it?

athena

(4,187 posts)
16. I would send them these two articles:
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 08:01 PM
Mar 2016
http://www.thenation.com/article/why-im-ready-and-excited-hillary/

http://www.thenation.com/article/can-hillary-clinton-win-over-the-left/

These two articles turned me into a Hillary supporter months ago.

I challenge any of the Bernie supporters here to actually read these two articles in their entirety, with an open mind.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
17. "Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton /ˈhɪləri daɪˈæn ˈrɒdəm ˈklɪntən/ (born October 26, 1947) is an
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 12:44 AM
Mar 2016

American politician. She is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election. She was the 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013. From 2001 to 2009, Clinton served as a United States Senator from New York. She is the wife of the 42nd President of the United States Bill Clinton, and was First Lady of the United States during his tenure from 1993 to 2001."

 

Betty Karlson

(7,231 posts)
18. "you f-ing retarded complacent millennial, you hell-bound slut, you sexist and racist entitled
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 02:51 AM
Mar 2016

pony-wanter and unicorn-rider, get thee down on thy knee for saint hillary the inevitable. It's the math."

Variations of the above seem to be the usual stuff hurled at me, since I am known NOT to want to vote for Clinton (certainly not while the primaries last).

Does that answer your question?

VulgarPoet

(2,872 posts)
19. That, the disgusting Brock smear, her lies about sniper fire in Bosnia, and her policy
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 08:20 AM
Mar 2016

are EXACTLY why I won't be voting for her. I'm in a deep Red state-- it doesn't matter who I vote for; so I actually can go on principle here.

 

bigwillq

(72,790 posts)
20. Nothing.
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 08:21 AM
Mar 2016

Same for Bernie.

Voting is a personal choice. Folks should vote for who they want. I never try to persuade someone.

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