Reply #16: I can't overlook what and who she represents [View All]

Good post to explain your choice. nevertheless, I disagree.

Whether one likes or dislikes Hillary personally is beside the point, IMO.

She is embedded in the systemic corruption and elitism that has been destroying this country for the last 35 years. She represents the capitulation of the Democratic Party under the DLC/Centrists to the interests of Corporate America (actually Big Global Capital) at the expense of the Majority, while assisting in the process of pushing the perceived political spectrum way too far to the right on the issues of Wealth and Power.

No matter how much she "cares" she is not going to break that stranglehold, not does she want to. She may have liberal instincts on some issues, but she far too locked into the corrupt status quo to even realize her own complicity in it.

I can't let empathy for her as a person distort the fact that she is NOT some poor underdog, or some woman who is being picked on. There is also a bit of a contradiction in your characterization of her as a fighter, and the sympathy she elicits in you. She can't simultaneously be a picked-on victim and "one tough bitch."