This Millennial is With Her
By Warmwaterpenguin
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/19/1487613/-This-Millennial-is-With-Her
Facebook’s been a rough place for a millennial Hillary supporter in California. I’ve spent too much time on defense, and I’ve realized that stepping back from the circular firing squad doesn’t just mean you refrain from shooting; it means you stop dodging the bullets. Recently, I’ve committed to only posting positively about Hillary instead. So here goes:
I like that Hillary's goal is to advance the Obama agenda.
I was an Obama zealot in 08 and fought like hell against her to get him in. In the course of opposing Hillary, I learned far more about her than I knew when I first decided to fight. I watched her speeches, not just while running for President but critically those from before that period, even dating back before Bill won in 92. I learned her history. I dissected her donor base.
The more opposition research I did against her, the more clear it became to me that she was a fundamentally decent person who'd suffered a concerted strategy to give her the air of scandal by ensuring *something* was always being investigated, no matter how ludicrous or ultimately disproven if was.
It was a good strategy; let's call it the where-there's-smoke-there's-fire stratagem. I felt like *something* must be wrong even if nothing had ever stuck. Afterall, she was always in trouble. Plus, at that point while I was young and had sunk my heart into Obama, I was invested and plausible arguments against his opponents were good as gold.
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