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In reply to the discussion: Is there trolling going on here in regards to Obama? Like [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Some of us really would prefer another candidate or even other candidates.
It's very odd to me that Democrats cannot respect the right of other Democrats to prefer candidates other than Hillary. Personally, I don't trust her. And I don't approve of a lot of the legislation that Bill Clinton signed into law -- the repeal of Glass-Steagall helped set the stage for the 2008 economic crisis -- NAFTA cost a lot of American jobs -- the Welfare Reform Act came back to bite when we suffered the crisis in 2008 -- and on and on. The close relationship between the Clintons and Wall Street and banking leaders troubles me. I don't think the Clintons understand who is middle class, and I don't think they appreciate the plight of the middle class. And I don't care how much they try to sound like they understand, I just don't think they do.
Bill Clinton was poor as a child. Hillary was middle class but not well-to-do (as we used to say). They still mistakenly seem to want to identify themselves as middle class. But they aren't. There is nothing wrong with being wealthy. But there is something troubling when people identify themselves as middle class and are actually wealthy. Why is that troubling? Because they think that they understand the problems members of the middle class are facing based on their own experience. In fact, their own experience is not at all like that of actual members of the middle class. They are in no danger of losing their beautiful home. They can afford health care and will have Bill's handsome pension to rely on for as long as they live.
We who are uneasy about Hillary have good reasons to be so.
The Democratic Party is a big tent. So be it. A person is not a troll because he or she does not want Hillary to be the candidate in 2016.