2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: A vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for Goldman Sachs. [View all]Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)I just don't get it. I could understand how people could support Trump and Cruz and even bush, but support for Clinton boggles my mind. Clinton stands for or has stood against so many things that are important to democrats. She has only "evolved" on certain issues after it was clear that the majority of Americans had already evolved as well.
There is no way in hell I could bring myself to vote for someone who voted for the Iraq War Resolution and then took more than a decade to realize that it was a mistake. She is either lacking adequate insight into serious issues or she is just going along with whatever the zeitgeist at the time is as it seems to be the politically expedient thing to do. Either of those make her an unacceptable option to me.
As a 23 year old Infantry Officer in 2002 and early 2003 I was boggled with what I saw going on in the Middle East. I never once understood the connection between Iraq and September 11th or believed we should have invaded that country. In found myself shooting, killing, and stuffing body bags in Iraq from February 2004 through March 2005. I knew before that war and I knew when I was in the war that it was a huge mistake. For someone who is aspiring to be our president to have taken more than a decade to realize the same thing a naïve and young kid could realize in an instant is a mistake says a lot about the poor judgement of the person aspiring to be our leader.