The Stigma of Openly Supporting Hillary Clinton
Mary Juhl
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The problem with Hillary supporters is they don’t care about the issues, they only care about the person and fall pray to the political marketing vehicle driving the brand and image. Hillary supporters have befallen to 25 years of marketing, branding and imaging by the Clinton’s and their ruthless surrogates.

They are a lot like consumers who choose to eat at McDonald’s. Everyone knows that McDonald's doesn’t make the best hamburger out there, in-fact many think it’s pretty lousy. Yet, they keep going back because it is the cheap and easy thing to do. Going to a McDonald’s drive-thru requires no serious thought, contemplation or debate. There is no research and analysis that goes into choosing to eat at the golden arches. Everyone knows what is on the menu and everyone knows how it tastes. They see those big, bright, yellow golden arches, they pull in, order their food and leave.

Hillary voters (mostly) are the same way. They don’t seem to care about policy; when you ask them why they support Hillary they give you some “better than Trump/Republicans/less of the two evils argument” or they regale you with some fairy tale about how the years between 1993–2000 were such a great time in America. When you press them on issues from trade policy/NAFTA to income inequality to $15 minimum wage to providing affordable, universal health care to ending our military escapades and regime change and on, they have either no clue or no interest. Pick out 100, 1,000, 1,000,000 Clinton supporters and try to make them tell you about what issues have caused them to want to vote for her. Rarely if ever will you get an issued or policy centered answer back. Hillary voters aren’t (by-in-large) activists, fighting on the front lines for real political change. There are some exceptions out there, but a vast majority simply aren’t out on the front lines fighting for policy and socio-economic change in this country.

Clinton supporters are the McDonald's consumers of voting and elections. 25 years of the Clinton name, 25 years of marketing and branding by the Clinton’s and their surrogates, their advertising specialists, have conned voters into thinking they are something that they really are not. They show up, vote and go home, giving little to no thought of the devastation they leave in their path. The devastation could be in the form of job losses from NAFTA, body counts or money wasted fighting in Iraq, LGBT people being blocked from marriage equality through DOMA, people’s civil liberties being compromised by authorizing and reauthorizing the Patriot Act, people going to jail instead of treatment centers for non-violent drug offenses, 3 strikes and you’re out laws permanently ruining lives, fracking ruining ground water and food supply for livestock or any number of things the Clinton’s have supported over the years.