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12 Reasons to Vote for Hillary That Have Nothing to Do With Trump
She and her platform represent much more than just the lesser evil.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton addresses the Planned Parenthood Action Fund in Washington. (Reuters / Gary Cameron)
The people have spoken: Dont try to scare me into voting for Hillary Clinton by talking about how awful Trump is. Make me love her! I happen to believe that thwarting Trumpa racist, xenophobic, misogynistic fake populistis an excellent reason to vote for his opponent, a normal human being. If you think Clintons evil, which I dont, let me paraphrase Noam Chomsky: The reason to vote for the lesser evil is that its less evil. Also, its delusional to think that a Trump presidency would pave the way for a left victory in 2020, much less Susan Sarandons revolution. It didnt happen when Humphrey lost to Nixon, it didnt happen when Carter lost to Reagan, and, just to go there for a moment, it certainly didnt happen when the German communists scorned the weak-tea socialists in the 1932 election with the slogan After Hitler, us. Mostly, right-wing victories pave the way for more right-wing victories.
But since you ask, here are 12 reasons why Hillary deserves your vote on her own merits.
Stopping Trump is more than enough reason to vote for Clinton. But here are another 12 arguments in her favor:
1. Reproductive rights. Im putting this first because theyre crucial to everything you care about: womens rights, economic equality, family well-being, access to education, to say nothing of simple human happiness. Hillary is great on this issue: She supports funding for Planned Parenthood, fact-based sex education, and widespread access to birth control (including emergency contraception). Shes also broken new ground by calling for an end to the Hyde Amendment, which bans the use of federal Medicaid funds to pay for poor womens abortions. (President Obama, whom Im guessing many Hillary holdouts supported, accepted the amendment as an American tradition.) The contrast with Trump, who wants to ban abortion and has filled his campaign with hard-core anti-choicers, couldnt be starker.
2. Health care. As first lady, Clinton worked to pass the State Childrens Health Insurance Program, which funds health care for 6 million children. Now she wants to get resistant red states to expand Medicaid; add a public option to the Affordable Care Act; let those 55 and over buy into Medicare; and offer coverage to undocumented immigrants. She wants to rein in drug companies, and has detailed plans to improve access to care for HIV, mental illness, and more.
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5. Children and families. Hillary supports 12 weeks of paid parental and family leave; 12 weeks to recover from a serious illness; universal preschool; doubling Head Start; and affordable child care that costs no family more than 10 percent of its income. She also wants to raise the pay of child-care workers and add quality child-care centers to college campuses.
6. Education. She supports debt-free public college and free community college, with debt relief for current borrowers. Shes also pledged $25 billion for historically black colleges and universities and other institutions that serve minorities.
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A vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for all these good policies. Ready to cast yours?
https://www.thenation.com/article/12-reasons-to-vote-for-hillary-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-trump/
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)scscholar
(2,902 posts)You do realize that we're not like CONservatives that believe something if you repeat it enough.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)niyad
(113,275 posts)spot, or covered at all, actually.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)It's so great that we tackle this election from all useful angles!
niyad
(113,275 posts)piece of information, meme, video, whatever, that is available to us.
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)and have conversations with people who are still undecided and/or persuadable. Why did you bother to click on the thread if you thought it redundant?
niyad
(113,275 posts)scscholar
(2,902 posts)It makes no sense.
What I object to is someone trying to disrupt this site by posting the same thing over and over and over again in order to make this site less useful and more time wasting so that people just stop coming here in disgust of the disgusting repetition that gets boring and just makes us want to stop paying attention to politics. This is serious.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"This is serious..."
Yet not serious enough to simply click and hide a thread, and deny any objective evidence of the allegations you've made as to site traffic.
You might think your righteous protestations are less than sincere.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)the fact that HRC is brilliant, hard working, a team player and a team leader!!!
Plus so qualified!