Will the Democratic Party unify under Hillary or split in two

[SheilaT]

22. There are an awful lot of Bernie supporters

who have been life-long Democrats who are willing to say Fuck It to the entire system if he's not the nominee. The Hillary side interprets that as a temper tantrum. They do not understand the underlying emotion here.

I'm a Bernie supporter, a life-long Democrat. I've even run for office, although I lost my election. I longed for Elizabeth Warren to run, and initially was thinking of Bernie as a second place choice. Over the past year I've grown to admire what he stands for, have become a fervent supporter. I know that Hillary is as close to the absolute worst choice the Democratic Party could possibly make as a nominee, and I'm utterly flabbergasted at her support.

Don't they think her constant position changes matter? Don't they think her out-and-out lies show her as a dishonest person? Don't they think her vote for the Iraq war as a senator, and her cheerful willingness to bomb women and children should be an issue? Here on DU I have NEVER seen a Hillary supporter give a substantive response to any of these challenges to her. Basically they're saying, She could be the First Woman President and nothing else matters.

Did any of you read the book or see the movie "Game Change" about the 2008 campaign? The movie is actually much clearer than the book that the Republican operatives were totally enamored of the idea of a female Vice President (and none of them had any recollection whatsoever of the 1984 campaign when Geraldine Ferraro was the VP nominee that year. What was it someone said about those not remembering history? Anyway, in the movie the Republican operatives keep on having near orgasms over the notion that a woman VP was a "Game Changer", without any regard to the actual substance of that woman running for that office. They were blinded by her genitalia, and could only wax enthusiastic about her. Until her incredible shortcomings, lack of basic intelligence, total self-centeredness, and overall complete lack of qualifications for this position became evident. By then it was too late. She wasn't vetted, to put it mildly. (Oh, and this is not the bullshit "vetted" that the Clinton folks keep on yammering about. This is the real thing.) But they pushed on, nonetheless, mainly because by the time they realized she was a total fuck-up of a choice, it was too late.

In a similar way the Hillary enthusiasts are completely blinded by the glittering possibility of the first woman President. They don't give a flying fuck that she's singularly unqualified, mainly because of her appalling judgement in so many areas. They don't care that she changes her mind daily on issues. They don't care that she's totally beholden to big money. All they see is that she's a woman. Worse yet, they don't get it that if Hillary Clinton becomes President, she will be so awful that it will be another fifty years before another woman can possibly be considered for the job. Hell, we'll probably have a transgendered President before then.

Well, I'm not going to fall for this. I'm a woman, and yes, I'd love to see a person of my gender as President. I've had my own experiences with discrimination because I'm a woman, and when I want I can get pretty riled up about them. But that doesn't mean I'll blindly vote for the first person with a vagina who seems to have a shot at the job.

More to the point, I've had it with voting for the lesser or two evils. Because I'd still be voting for an evil. If I cannot cast a positive vote for the person I really want to be President, then too bad. I won't vote for that office at all. Oh, I'll vote the down ticket people. But all of the rest of the people out there can take it upon themselves to choose a lesser evil. I'm done with that.