Thanks for the link, Andrew. Amy Goodman rocks! But the country is pretty much overall centrist, not progressive, for whatever reasons, some of them not so good. But in response to the question presuming nobody could possibly like Hillary, neither left nor right, I'm going to be enemy #1 and say I think Hillary Clinton is a highly experienced, balanced, and thoughtful leader who would make an excellent president. She is hated for a complex litany of reasons, many of which have to do with a willingness to compromise that tends toward the level of hypocrisy, but which may not exactly be hypocritical so much as indeterminate, and nobody likes that in a leader. On the other hand, I think she has taken a stand in some areas and gotten results, but no credit for those results. Much of the hatred is also because she is a woman whose husband put her in a compromising position, indicating "weakness" to many, and at the same time is a power player in politics, which in men is strength but in women seen as "overbearing" unless the woman is totally not compromised by a man such as Bill C. I'm with her not because of fear of Trump, although I'm no fan of fascism and the police state he would create, but because there's a war going on between the covert agencies and the ostensible government (this has been a long-standing issue but its worse now) and she may be one of the few people who is already heavily invested and committed to democracy winning that war, albeit not in Amy Goodman's vision of it. She will keep valuable institutions others blindly would get rid of.
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