(Just "how left" are you, anyway? Clinton was not the only democratic party senator to misplace faith in the integrity of the intel community before deciding
to vote for the war powers resolution requested by Bush in 2002,
She was not, and I voted for Kerry in the caucus of 2004, when I was much further right. It wouldn't be much of an issue, on its own, but it's not
on its own. I was a right-wing lunatic growing up, perfectly timed with the beginning and the end of the (Bill) Clinton years. Thing is, at the time I remember the "left" and even the establishment Democrats screaming to high heavens that the intel was bad, and pure astonishment that the Senate Democrats went along with it.
Corporatist? Sure, to an extent, but still the only woman in U.S. history to accomplish the nearly impossible goal of a major party nomination.
That's a very impressive accomplishment, yes, and I couldn't take that away from her if I tried. But like President Obama before her, everyone seemed to believe
that fact alone should compel me to vote for her. It just... doesn't have anything to do with why I would or wouldn't vote for her. I can't imagine who their counterparts on the Right would have been-- that's
telling-- but imagine that they'd never run for office, and it's 2032 and Marjorie Taylor-Green is the first woman on the top of a major Presidential ticket.
I'm not comparing the two officials. I'm saying the "historical accomplishment" doesn't do anything for the fact that neither of them has
anything to offer me, ideologically or in terms of my quality of life. I've... already run down the list once today, I think in this thread, of all the ways she isn't what I want from the Democrats... and all the reasons I donate money to gun rights orgs (not the NRA) every time I vote for the Democrats.
Thing is... a few Democrats and a whole
lot of Independents told the Democratic Party they wouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton with a gun to their head and... well, the Democratic Party didn't even
put a gun to their heads and they were
shocked that those people did not, in fact, vote for Hillary Clinton. It was a 100% unforced error that... basically,
the entire country tried to warn them about.
It doesn't matter who wins the elections, because the country always moves further to the Right afterwards. I'm not going to live to see the presidential debates of 2056, when Governor Obama tells the American people she loved her father, honors her father... but she would have been a Trump supporter in 2020, and has only been a Democrat since the Thirties because the Republicans have moved so far to the Right.