2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Can someone explain how an individual can oppose citizens United, but support Hillary? [View all]gollygee
(22,336 posts)For two reasons:
1. When you vote for someone, you're voting for a whole package. No one is going to like everything about any candidate. Or at least that isn't a reasonable expectation. Candidates are human beings with a variety of opinions and you can disagree on one point but overall favor them.
2. There is an argument that you can't get high up enough in the game to change the rules unless you start out by playing the game as it's currently being played. That is, that you have to have the same ways to make money as the people you're running against (and in this case that is the GOP) or you're never going to get elected to be able to do any good at all.
I am voting for Bernie, but this is not a reason. If he decided he wouldn't have an opportunity to make the changes he wants to make unless he took that kind of money, I'd still vote for him.