Driving ten hours three days a week gives
time to think ( always dangerous in my case) without a lot of interruptions.
One subject that I’ve pondered is the
appeal of Hillary Clinton. People and relatives whose intellect and opinions I
otherwise respect seem fixated. Why?
My conclusion it is the “idea” of
Hillary. What they hoped she represented.
Some of the motivations in play, IMO.
Women who have fought glass ceilings all
their lives.
Men, including me, who have seen the anger
and despair of their mothers who were forced into subservient positions while
men at their workplaces with no talent or ability were promoted and paid.
Women who have sucked it up in unhappy
marriages and kept their households together despite lousy husbands. Add men
who grew up in those households who weren’t blind to what was happening.
The coalitions of people of both sexes
that have tried to make positive improvements in their communities and helping
the less fortunate. They fear that those
gains be lost.
There is much more. Hopefully the reader
can fill in more blanks.
So, a mix of hope, anger, fear and
despair seeking a champion for those ideals most important to them. Hillary
seems to be that champion.
Sadly, for them, their champion is in the
body and mind of a terribly flawed human being.
The most progressive person I know, who
has literally put her life on the line for her ideals, once said, regarding
Hillary,
“I never thought these words would pass my lips. I wish we had a
better candidate”.
Hillary’s loss is taken by her supporters as a rejection
of them and their ideals. Not necessarily so. Remember the part of the famous
Lincoln quote, “all the people all the time?” Enough citizens were not taken in
by Hillary to cost her the election. They voted for the lesser evil in many
cases, IMO.
But, but, but, she WON the popular vote.
If national elections were won by popular vote, New York City and California
would be all that matters.
So that I’m not accused of using a
conservative biased source, this is from Time magazine.
Overall,
he won 2,622 predominantly small counties while Clinton won 490, most of which
were much more populous. (Those figures may shift very slightly since some
states take a long time to certify their results.) Still, the shifts were large
enough for a number of pickups. At present count, Trump snagged 220 counties
that voted for President Obama in 2012, while Clinton poached 17 that went for
Mitt Romney.
As any long term readers of this blog
will recall, I’ve been consistent in my stance of, “Anybody but Shillary”. That
was not an endorsement of Donald Trump.
I’ve been pleasantly pleased by the
performance of President Trump. I’m delighted to see the, “by any means
necessary” modus operandi of Clinton, Inc. being exposed and the utter
criminality of their gathering of wealth. The list of crimes goes on and on.
There is more to come. If one was to pick
the department most dedicated to improving citizen’s lives, I would
nominate HUD. During the eight years of
the Obama Administration, over $500,000,000+ is unaccounted. I suspect the
Obama clique, the “Czars”, looted the Treasury with no fear of consequences.
They were confident the election of Obama’s successor would mean their
activities would continue and never come to light. They were on a roll and the
good times would never end. Their time had come!
A large portion of the “resistance” is,
IMO, people terrified of losing their ill gotten riches and their liberties to
imprisonment. The karma bus in gathering speed and driven by an outsider they
can’t control.
I can relate to the Hillary supporters
angst. I lived with it for the previous eight years.
