This is very cool. I have a lady friend who feels exactly the same way and expressed herself in similar language . . .
An All-Caps Explosion of Feelings Regarding the Liberal Backlash Against
Hillary Clinton
By Courtney Enlow | Politics | February 2, 2016
As Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have become head-to-head rivals,
their denizens have begun attacking each other, the Democratic Party eating
itself like a snake that loves science and Planned Parenthood. And things have
gotten ugly.
For many of us, it's not simply politics as usual. It's very
personal.
For me, the backlash against Hillary Clinton feels very, very
personal.
Can you imagine how absolutely infuriating it must be for Hillary to have
to work so hard to be likable, but strong? Hip, but above the need to be seen as
cool? For everything she says to be perfect because she'd be crucified
otherwise, meanwhile Bernie Sanders could say pretty much anything he wants and
it would be seen as the goddamn revolution? I'm so infuriated on her behalf.
Because what you like about Bernie, what they like about Trump, she doesn't get
to do that. She doesn't get to be all wild hair and yelling. Do I wish
different? Of course. And the first female president would go a long way toward
making that difference possible.
So since Hillary cannot yell, since by the virtue of being sane and not a
white man she is forced to be the biggest adult in the room, just like Obama has
had to for eight goddamn years, I will yell for her.
FIRST AND FUCKING FOREMOST, COOL, YOU LIKE BERNIE'S WISHES AND DREAMS
APPROACH TO POLITICS. "FREE COLLEGE FOR EVERYONE AND A GODDAMN PONY." YES, THAT
SOUNDS FUCKING WONDERFUL BUT DO YOU THINK HILLARY COULD EVEN SAY THOSE WORDS
WITHOUT FOX NEWS LITERALLY BURYING HER ALIVE IN TAMPONS AND CRUCIFIXES?
YOU DON'T LIKE THAT SHE HAD CERTAIN NOW-UNACCEPTABLE POLICIES BACK IN THE
'90S? HEY, I GET THAT THAT SHIT SEEMS LIKE LAST WEEK, BUT IT WAS ANOTHER GODDAMN
WORLD ENTIRELY. I GET THAT WE ALL THINK WE'RE THE UNIVERSE'S BESTEST HUMANS BUT
MOST OF THIS COUNTRY JUST LEARNED TRANS PEOPLE EXIST, LIKE, YESTERDAY. LET'S NOT
PRETEND WE'VE ALL BEEN THE MOST INCLUSIVE PROGRESSIVE SUPER-COOL PEEPS FOR LIKE
A THOUSAND YEARS NOW. PROGRESSIVE MEANS JUST THAT--PROGRESS. SHIT THAT WAS A BIG
GODDAMN DEAL AT THE TIME IS NOT COOL NOW. PROGRESS. IT'S FUCKING SWELL.
YOU DON'T LIKE THAT SHE PLAYS THE GAME? THAT SHE HAS TIES TO THE
ESTABLISHMENT? FOR ONE THING, THAT'S HOW SHIT FUCKING GETS DONE. FOR THE OTHER
THING, THE BIGGEST THING, A WOMAN DOESN'T GET THE FUCKING OPTION *NOT* TO PLAY
THE GAME. NOT NOW. NOT YET. WE ALL WISH THINGS WERE DIFFERENT BUT THEY DON'T
BECOME DIFFERENT WHILE WE'RE ATTACKING THE FUCKING PERSON WHO CAN MAKE THAT
POSSIBLE.
AND THESE NEW BERNIE VS. HILLARY MEMES. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU EVEN
DOING?
SERIOUSLY? THAT'S YOUR LINE? SHE'S NOT COOL ENOUGH? WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU
PEOPLE EVEN WANT FROM HER? WOMEN HAVE TRIED FOR YEARS TO "HAVE IT ALL" AND THEN
WE GET YELLED AT FOR TRYING TO HAVE THE IMPOSSIBLE "ALL" BUT THEN IT'S NOT GOOD
ENOUGH WHEN WE DON'T HAVE THE "ALL." IT'S FUCKING BULLSHIT.
THE DAY MY HUSBAND TOLD ME HE LIKED BERNIE, HE SAID, "I mean, how great is
it to have a president who just doesn't even care how his hair looks" AND I
EXPLODED "DO YOU THINK THERE EXISTS A WORLD WHERE A WOMAN COULD EVEN CONSIDER
THAT?"
AND THE MOST MINDBLOWING PART? THIS ISN'T EVEN COMING FROM THE GOP! BECAUSE
WHAT I AM SEEING IS THE SAME THING WE SEE WITH OBAMA ONLY ON THE MORE LIBERAL
END OF THE SPECTRUM--PEOPLE WHO WOULD NEVER CONSIDER THEMSELVES BIGOTS IN ANYWAY
BUT JUST KNOW THERE IS *SOMETHING* THEY DON'T CARE FOR ABOUT THIS PERSON. THEY
REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT SOMETHING COULD BE SKIN COLOR OR GENDER BUT FOR VERY MANY
OF THEM IT ABSOLUTELY FUCKING IS.
I'M NOT SAYING THERE AREN'T REASONS SOMEONE SHOULD DISLIKE HILLARY OR
PREFER BERNIE. THAT IS FINE. THAT IS YOUR JOURNEY. BUT LET'S NOT PRETEND FOR A
SECOND THAT THERE WOULD BE *THIS MANY* ISSUES WITH HILLARY IF SHE WAS A GODDAMN
MAN.
AND IF YOU COME AT ME FOR EVEN ONE GODDAMN SECOND WITH A "YOU JUST LIKE HER
BECAUSE SHE'S A WOMAN" I WILL DESTROY YOU WHERE YOU STAND. I LIKE HER! I LIKE
HER POLICIES, I LIKE HER PLANS, I LIKE WHAT SHE STANDS FOR, I LIKE THAT SHE'S
GROWN AND EVOLVED AS A HUMAN AND POLITICIAN! I LIKE THAT SHE WAS FOR MANY OF US
MY AGE ONE OF OUR FIRST ROLE MODELS OF A SMART, PROFESSIONAL, KICKASS WOMAN AND
THAT SHE ISN'T AFRAID OF THE WORD "FEMINIST" AND I'M SICK OF HAVING TO APOLOGIZE
FOR LIKING HER, FOR HAVING TO QUALIFY AND SEE YOUR SIDE AND RESPECT YOUR OPINION
WHEN I FUCKING DON'T AND YOU FUCKING DON'T RIGHT BACK. I LIKE HER!
AND MOST OF YOU LIKE HER POLICIES AND PLANS TOO BECAUSE A) THEY'RE
BASICALLY FUCKING OBAMA AND B) THEY'RE NOT THAT FUCKING DIFFERENT THAN FUCKING
BERNIE.
THIS IS BASICALLY TWITTER RIGHT NOW:
Hillary: College should be affordable.
Twitter: Establishment puppet, no better than GOP.
Bernie: College should be affordable.
Twitter: DAD
AND THE THING IS--I LIKE BERNIE! EVERYONE LIKES BERNIE! BECAUSE CRAZY
GRANDPA IS TOTALLY ELECTABLE BUT CRAZY GRANDMA NEVER COULD BE. BUT WHY DO WE
HAVE TO HATE HER TO SHOW HOW MUCH WE LOVE HIM? SOCIALIST JESUS TAKE THE FUCKING
WHEEL.
IT IS ABSOLUTELY GUT WRENCHING THAT THIS BADASS, IMPORTANT WOMAN HAS BEEN
DIMINSHED AND WRITTEN OFF AND HATED HER WHOLE CAREER, HER WHOLE EXISTENCE AS A
PUBLIC FIGURE. YOU LIKE BERNIE BECAUSE HE DOESN'T PLAY THE GAME, BUT FOR HILLARY
RODHAM CLINTON, FOR A WOMAN, SHE HAS HAD NO OTHER CHOICE.
BUT THOSE WHO COME AFTER HER MIGHT.
SO, YES, I'M EMOTIONAL AND I'M YELLING. BECAUSE THIS IS FUCKING EMOTIONAL
FOR ME. I WANT A FEMALE PRESIDENT AND I WANT PRESIDENT HILLARY CLINTON. I WANT
BOTH OF THESE THINGS BUT MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE I WANT WOMEN TO HAVE AN EQUAL
FUCKING FAIR SHAKE. I'M SICK OF THIS STUPID BULLSHIT DISGUISED AS POLITICS,
MASQUERADING AS POLITICAL OPINION.
SO FUCK EVERYTHING. I'M WITH HER.
Thank you for your time. Excuse me while I nope out of the comments for all
eternity.
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Thank you. That is one of the most elegantly stated, passionate, emotional, TRUE summaries and defenses of HRC I have ever read. Thank you for taking the time to write this. I am a middle age gay white male. Like you, I have liked HRC since the first time I ever heard of her, and as the past 25 years have gone by, my opinion of her has only gone up. I hope that voters like you and I are the "new Silent Majority" who will show up at the polls to vote when it matters. I am too old and tired now to shout down the Hillary-hating, scorched-earth Radical Left Wing, and I burned out 10 years ago trying to take on and shout back at the Flat Earth, Know-Nothings who have taken over the United States Republican Party circa 1979.
ReplyDeleteThanks but I can't take credit for anything but re-posting it. Came from here:
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Look, I've been for Adlai Stevenson, Eugene McCarthy, Jerry Brown, and Dennis Kucinich. The last time MY candidate was nominated for President, I was twelve years old. Hillary was in the White House for eight years, in what Bill Clinton said was two-for-the-price-of-one. She is doing all right for herself.
ReplyDeleteI am really sick of being talked down to and lectured by the Clintonistas, as if it is "her turn." Because it is not.
The Democratic Party needs to be a party of issues, not personalities. It is not personal. It is all about the platform, and whoever wins the nomination will be supported in the election to carry out the mission for economic empowerment of workers and social equality.