Why I do not Support Hillary Clinton

[sabrina 1]

It could be summed up in one word: Judgement.

It is vitally important when choosing someone for the most important job in the country to look at their records and their positions on some of the major issues that faced them during their political careers. How they dealt with those issues, either by their votes if they were elected to represent the people, or their public positions on those issues tells us a lot about what kind of leader they will be.

If someone is in a position where they had the power to influence the lives of millions of other human beings then it better be someone who has shown they have the ability to judge the issues before them, to be able to asses the consequences that will result from their decisions and to judge those who are asking them for their support.

IF the record shows that on far too many important issues, a candidate has had to admit that their judgement was wrong, so wrong that they have to continually change their minds, to evolve and/or to apologize for their decisions then in my opinion, it is necessary to find someone else, someone who has demonstrated that they have made the correct decisions when asked to do so.

Hillary voted for the Iraq War stating she believed Bush/Cheney regarding the lies they told, which many ordinary people were able to see even though they did not have the access to the information Hillary had. I am sure there is no need to expand on the horrific consequences of that invasion still ongoing, to millions of human beings.

Hillary supported the horribly discriminatory Right Wing Welfare Reform Bill which statistics now show disproportionately adversely affected single minority mothers and their children. She public lauded the legislation and continued to do so in her last campaign for the WH in 2008. She has been silent in where she stands in this campaign.

Hillary supported the TPP while in her position as SOS and has not stated her position on this grotesque, labor killing Corporate written NAFTA on steroids, proposed secret deal so far.

When asked for her position on the Environment Destroying Keystone Pipeline, she is again evasive, stating she will let us know after she is elected. That is unacceptable for any candidate to say.

On Civil Rights for Gays Hillary touted the 'Sanctity of Marriage' in her opposition to Marriage Equality for Gays as late as 2013.

She also publicly supported all of President Clinton's devastatingly wrong policies on Tough on Crime Legislation which were responsible for expanding the prison population to the shameful rate of incarceration of mostly poor minorities which led to the destruction of families, voting rights and expanded the horrific Private Prison Industry which profits from locking up as many Americans, poor minorities mostly, as possible.

On the removal of regulations on Wall St which was signed into law by Bill Clinton, and which led to the Global Financial Meltdown, Hillary has stated she would not reinstate Glass Steagal.

On one of the most important issues finally being highlighted in this campaign, Campaign Finance Reform, the corrosive, corrupting influence of money on our electoral system, Hillary says she wants to rescind CU, while at the same time taking advantage of it.

For these and other reasons, I did not support Hillary in her last campaign, I supported Obama and do not support her in this campaign, I support Bernie Sanders.

I support Bernie Sanders because of his long record of GOOD JUDGEMENT on most of the major issues he was asked to make decisions on as an elected official.

Mostly for his prescience when he cast votes on the Iraq Wars, the Patriot Act, Welfare Reform, DOMA, and his long history on Civil Rights for AAs.

He has shown amazingly good judgement back when many politicians voted the wrong way either because they 'got it wrong', or because they were afraid of losing elections.

I cannot support anyone who has to evolve on major issues. It's great when people evolve on issues they were wrong about. Ordinary people have the time to evolve.

However, leaders do not have that luxury, their decisions will affect the very lives of millions of other people and for that reason it is our duty to make sure we choose wisely when choosing leaders.