[quote=temeculaguy] I’ll vote for anyone but Hillary.[/quote]
I’ve heard a lot of Hillary hating over the last 24 years, and, like you said, there seem to be as many reasons as people who hate her. But most of the reasons are vague and personality-related.
Sure, the fox news-listening crowd will jump on Benghazi and the email situation and whatever else fox is peddling at that particular time. But the fox news-listening crowd is brainwashed beyond repair and they’re not my concern on this issue.
Moderates and progressives who hate Hillary concern me and, for the most part, I don’t understand them. I mean, I can see not liking her secretiveness, her focus-group-dependent positions, and her chumminess with financiers. But those shouldn’t, in my opinion, add up to the venomous, I’ll-vote-for-anyone-but-her hate that is out there. To me, that has to come down to her personality. And, (I could be wrong about this, but) it seems to me that that has a lot to do with what our society expects from a woman. I think a lot of people who hate her wouldn’t hate her if she was a man, but they don’t realize that the feelings they have toward her wouldn’t exist if she were a man. A good friend of mine, for instance. He claimed he didn’t hate Hillary because she was a woman. But when I pressed him on why he did hate her, among the things he said was, “she reminds me of Sally” (a strong, rather shrill woman that we know).
Our culture says that women shouldn’t be loud, pointy, assertive, in charge, etc. We like to think we’ve evolved beyond that, but I think that’s giving us more credit than we’ve earned. Is it possible that so many people hate Hillary because, deep down, there’s some dissonance between what we want from a woman and what we see from Hillary?
Now, temeculaguy, you’ve always seemed like a pretty enlightened, reasonable guy. I’m really curious why you hate Hillary so much. And I want you to be honest with yourself and picture her as a man and see if you hate her so much. If she held the same policy positions she does now, and had basically the same personality she does now, but was a man, would you hate her so much? Would you vow to vote for anybody but her, even if that anybody was an immature, narcissistic, ignorant lunatic who poses a real and serious threat to the safety and prosperity of this country?
Do you really think that he would be a better president than her, or are you letting some vague, primordial hatred for her get in the way of a reasonable and responsible vote?
