Even if Hillary and the Democrats were as bad as they get painted in conservative media, I would still vote because I have the right to vote and I'm not going to waste it. And I'm definitely not going to vote for anything that would put Donald Trump anywhere near the position of 'leader of the free world', and I'm not going to vote for the village idiot who can't name a world leader he respects and whose party platform believes that education of children should be optional, or for a woman who won't repudiate the antivaxxers.
And the thing is, plenty of sites have pointed out that Hillary is less of a liar than just about anyone except Barack Obama, that Benghazi has been a bloody expensive witchhunt, that her 'pay to speak' is no worse than any other politician out there and better than some, and that she's been hampered by being a woman in a world where the majority of people still privately think women should shut up, spread their legs, and know where they belong (which is certainly not saying anything that might in any way hurt people who have penises and/or egoboos).
She's got experience in politics (I consider that a definite plus; if I pay for a plumber to fix my drains, I damn well want someone who's qualified and preferably who comes recommended as being able to do the job), and if her policies aren't what I'd make them if I were leader, well, in politics, it seems pretty obvious to me that leaders get to set the tone of the situation rather than the specifics. Sure, they have their pet projects, but they still have to get it through the legislature.
Frankly, I don't personally have the "spiritual issues" that American Evangelical conservatives do over the matters of abortion rights, gay marriage, health care, black lives matter, taxes, and regulation, so the Democratic party platform isn't an issue for me.
Plus in recent years, the idea of throwing away my vote has become distinctly repugnant - all the more from watching the US political process. My vote may get aggregated with others, and in Australia's previous manner of counting, it may end up aggregated to a party I disagree with on several points, but it's my vote, and I'm not about to let the extremists of any party decide what my society is going to look like now and going forward.
Those are the reasons why I'd vote for Hillary Clinton, if I had a vote in the election.
I don't, so it's largely academic. But I've answered questions over on Quora about this at least once "why would any Christian vote for Hillary and the DNC?" so I figure there are some people wondering out there.
I don't have any spiritual issues with the health insurance laws and taxes, but since they materially HURT me and others, including taking away actual health care from people I know and care about in exchange for insurance that won't cover it, I have practical issues with the democratic platform.
That aside said, I'm in no way, shape, or form voting for Trump and feel strongly that no woman or Christian should.
I will admit that I'm coming to the Democratic Platform on healthcare from an Australian perspective, where the health care system certainly isn't perfect, but is certainly not as broken or as prejudicial as the American one.
I'm pro-life, but I am rather more upset that we as a nation suck at taking care of our own, currently-living people. That also factors into immigration & bringing in more refugees. I don't at all want to build a wall, but I have seen how shitty it is for immigrants. My old school district had communities of Somali refugees. As a human being, I wanted to take care of my students in as many areas as I could, but as an educator, I was repeatedly told to focus on was get them to pass the tests.
The Rachel Held-Evans blog you posted a while back crawls into my mind often.
I am still reading up on things, and agree she has the most experience, but am also wary of some parts of the democratic platform.
I think wariness towards the platform is certainty justified - I never agree with absolutely everything that the party I vote for supports.
eg. In the last federal election, I voted for The Greens, the extremist arm of which most certainly would strip scripture out of classes, and strip any and all rights out of churches and Christian organisations that they could possibly reach. But they were providing a valuable voice on things like refugee treatment and ecological damage in our country's 'breadbasket' area, even if I disagreed with their platform.
And that's what I mean when I talk about making choices and 'lesser evils' because the Australian vote is mandatory, so we have to vote for something, and even if my area is blue-ribbon conservative (one of the safest conservative seats in the country), I felt moved to vote in this way on this matter, this time.
Even if Hillary and the Democrats were as bad as they get painted in conservative media, I would still vote because I have the right to vote and I'm not going to waste it. And I'm definitely not going to vote for anything that would put Donald Trump anywhere near the position of 'leader of the free world', and I'm not going to vote for the village idiot who can't name a world leader he respects and whose party platform believes that education of children should be optional, or for a woman who won't repudiate the antivaxxers.
And the thing is, plenty of sites have pointed out that Hillary is less of a liar than just about anyone except Barack Obama, that Benghazi has been a bloody expensive witchhunt, that her 'pay to speak' is no worse than any other politician out there and better than some, and that she's been hampered by being a woman in a world where the majority of people still privately think women should shut up, spread their legs, and know where they belong (which is certainly not saying anything that might in any way hurt people who have penises and/or egoboos).
She's got experience in politics (I consider that a definite plus; if I pay for a plumber to fix my drains, I damn well want someone who's qualified and preferably who comes recommended as being able to do the job), and if her policies aren't what I'd make them if I were leader, well, in politics, it seems pretty obvious to me that leaders get to set the tone of the situation rather than the specifics. Sure, they have their pet projects, but they still have to get it through the legislature.
Frankly, I don't personally have the "spiritual issues" that American Evangelical conservatives do over the matters of abortion rights, gay marriage, health care, black lives matter, taxes, and regulation, so the Democratic party platform isn't an issue for me.
Plus in recent years, the idea of throwing away my vote has become distinctly repugnant - all the more from watching the US political process. My vote may get aggregated with others, and in Australia's previous manner of counting, it may end up aggregated to a party I disagree with on several points, but it's my vote, and I'm not about to let the extremists of any party decide what my society is going to look like now and going forward.
Those are the reasons why I'd vote for Hillary Clinton, if I had a vote in the election.
I don't, so it's largely academic. But I've answered questions over on Quora about this at least once "why would any Christian vote for Hillary and the DNC?" so I figure there are some people wondering out there.
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That aside said, I'm in no way, shape, or form voting for Trump and feel strongly that no woman or Christian should.
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The Rachel Held-Evans blog you posted a while back crawls into my mind often.
I am still reading up on things, and agree she has the most experience, but am also wary of some parts of the democratic platform.
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eg. In the last federal election, I voted for The Greens, the extremist arm of which most certainly would strip scripture out of classes, and strip any and all rights out of churches and Christian organisations that they could possibly reach. But they were providing a valuable voice on things like refugee treatment and ecological damage in our country's 'breadbasket' area, even if I disagreed with their platform.
And that's what I mean when I talk about making choices and 'lesser evils' because the Australian vote is mandatory, so we have to vote for something, and even if my area is blue-ribbon conservative (one of the safest conservative seats in the country), I felt moved to vote in this way on this matter, this time.
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