The moral case for Hillary Clinton: Even if you might dislike her, this isn’t the year to back a third-party candidate
Voters planning to support Jill Stein or Gary Johnson should take a moment to examine the potential consequences “What would it take for you to vote for a third-party candidate
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I am ok with voting for kaine the "soccer dad" memes will be a thing of glory
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Which is not a case for Clinton so much as a "hey look what your other choice is"
Which is still a problem
But unfortunately a problem much bigger than electing Clinton would fix
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Just don't go there.
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But more seriously it's because I have the lived experience of a Kaine administration to fall back on as some comfort that he's not going to completely screw me over. He is still a Corporate Dem and still more on the Neolib scale but not to the degree of McAuliffe (who is very much a Clinton Jr.) So i's less "this is a great choice!!" and more "If given a choice I can support this person because I've already been through it and lived to tell about it" without having to cringe at the constant reminders that they're war hawks, or have "Oops my bad" moments, or get constantly shamed for NOT supporting them.
With Clinton there is none of that familiarity and personal experience to fall back on and people have YET to really give me reasons to be excited for her besides... she's not Trump.
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(I know, I know, couldn't resist the sarcasm after the above commentor.
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Does that mean I should automatically support Angela Merkel given how she's been the most ardent supporter of austerity politics that screwed Greece over?
I realize it's a big thing for *~glass ceilings*~ but it's largely irrelevant to someone's policies and stances.
eta: dude I swear Imma gonna make a meme of that so I can fall back on it whenever I need to facepalm and facepalm hard
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Bringing up the Thatcher comparison--especially with the neoliberalism roots--makes people I talk to about it react with, "Hey she's not THAT bad!..."
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She may or may not be that bad. We shall see. It's like sticking my hand into Schrodinger's box and waiting with bated breath to see whether my hand gets shredded by angry cat claws or like, I am going to feel happy fluffy fur.
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It's not true now, I agree. BUT most of us under like, 35, don't use gender as a metric as to whether someone is electable or not because for the younger group there is no reason a woman CAN'T be.
Now if it pays off with more women being involved... we'll have to wait and see. It's going to have to come from more grassroots like anything else but many of the hurdles wrt "lol women can't rule they have periods" are gone for the up and coming voting blocs.
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But we're not in such a post-racist or post-sexist world that when it comes to comparing multiple candidates those elements shouldn't be a factor in analyzing their arc, their real and actual opportunities, the way that how people react to them over their life affects decisions and behavior, and more.
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