Reluctant Hillary Clinton Supporters Say #GirlIGuessImWithHer

[abiding]

By NATALIE ANDREWS

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[abiding]

Agreed.

[brennans]

same i'd vote for jill stein but i live in a swing state and i'm too scared of that vote going to trump, etc.

[koushiba]

Yeah. At least here on the comm, a lot of people have deeply personal reasons for not wanting to vote for her/liking her.

[wordnerd98]

I can respect them if they are voting for someone like Jill Stien, but I can't respect people who are voting for Trump instead. I mean if you believe in Bernie's message at all, why would you vote for the antithesis of that? Unless your vote is to spite Hillary...

That said, I don't think there's anyone on this community who is voting for Trump out of spite. I'm talking about other places like Facebook, etc.

[spiritoftherain]

Honestly, I can see people not supporting Jill Stein either. Her "Bye Felicia" tweet stirred up quite a bit of controversy...?

[colorfilm]

and she thinks autistic people are an epidemic.

[spiritoftherain]

Well, she's not alone in that regard. I've been reading NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman. The history of autism in the US is a crazy, tragic rollercoaster ride through lava and shit...

[lightframes]

That's so gross.

[wordnerd98]

she thinks autistic people are an epidemic.

Eaux.

Yeah I didn't care for her tweet either but that ableism shit just makes it worse.

I guess people can just write in Bernie, vote for someone else, or not vote, but God, don't vote for Trump if you're a Bernie supporter.

As someone who is legally blind I have to say I appreciate Hillary's mention of getting rid of sub-minimum wages for people with disables.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-subminimum-wage-people-with-disabilities_us_56faf630e4b083f5c605ef20

[tilmon]

Subminimum wages for real work is an insult and an invitation to exploitation.

[elialshadowpine]

Well, since I'm autistic, along with a hell of a lot of my friends, that ensures I will never, ever vote for her.

[un_fantasma]

I'm not voting for Stein given her autism comments (also lol @ "we didn't have autism and diabetes back in my day!"). I'm voting Soltysik. I know he won't win but honestly a vote for him is better than any of the alternatives IMO.

[screamingintune]

iawtc

[spiritoftherain]

Honestly, I can see people not supporting Jill Stein either. Her "Bye Felicia" tweet stirred up quite a bit of controversy...?

[rainbows_]

+1

Some people in this community have had their family personally affected by Hillary Clinton's foreign policy decisions, there are valid reasons for people not wanting to vote for her.

I also believe guilt tripping people into voting for a candidate they heavily distrust/disagree with is not an effective way to gather support for your candidate.

Empowering people to engage with the political process and not alienating/disillusioning them is so much more important (alienating voters is so damaging as already not enough people vote, especially democrats).