So I've got a calculus test today, and I'm typing this in between reviewing formulas for taking the derivative of logarithms, calculating elasticity, and evaluating interest rates (whether continuous interest or compound interest).
I'm trying to figure out what to say that won't turn into basic Clinton bashing (I am definitely not a fan, you see).
And that's kind of the problem. Or rather, the fact that we can't have an honest discussion about Clinton without sounding like it's Clinton-bashing is a problem. The true believers have all their counter-arguments and defenses already lined up. Don't like her?
You must be a Republican.
Or too credulous, and willing to believe Republican lies.
Or sexist.
Or it was all Comey, and Russia, and you are letting them 'win' if you talk about Hillary's mistakes.
It kind of bothers me that we are almost a year past the election, and Hillary Clinton's name is still coming up all too often. Some of that is on the Republican side - they seem to like using her as a distraction - but some of that is Clinton herself. Who just refuses to go away.
And her true supporters laud her for that, even as the 2/3rds of the population who don't support her are sick of it.
I find myself wondering, why is she so desperate to hang on? Like - I know that you have to believe in yourself to run for office. That you have to convince yourself that you need to be the candidate, that nobody else can do it better. (After all, if they could do it better you'd drop out and vote for them...right?)
But at some point you have to understand the distinction between what's best for you and what's best for the party. And I really don't think Hillary hanging on is best for the party. She lost to one of the most unpopular presidential candidates ever. Some of that may be because of Russian meddling, or Comey, or any of the other excuses...but the race wouldn't have been close enough for those things to matter if she had been a better candidate in the first place.
The true believers act as though her years of experience were a good thing, since it proved nothing the Republicans did could stick. They were so focused on defeating the Republicans (and calling them out for all the 'lies' against their own candidates) that they didn't care at all about what the casual voter thought.
Or how it looked, that the entire Democratic party supported a candidate who was under an FBI investigation. After all, they all 'knew' the investigation was just Republican shenanigans, and not anything anyone should take seriously.
And now that the election is over, why, we've got better things to worry about. Like Trump. Or Russia. No need to look at how and why the entire Democratic party supported such a flawed candidate.
So much of the commentary on that tweet is avoiding exactly that.
I'm trying to figure out what to say that won't turn into basic Clinton bashing (I am definitely not a fan, you see).
And that's kind of the problem. Or rather, the fact that we can't have an honest discussion about Clinton without sounding like it's Clinton-bashing is a problem. The true believers have all their counter-arguments and defenses already lined up. Don't like her?
You must be a Republican.
Or too credulous, and willing to believe Republican lies.
Or sexist.
Or it was all Comey, and Russia, and you are letting them 'win' if you talk about Hillary's mistakes.
It kind of bothers me that we are almost a year past the election, and Hillary Clinton's name is still coming up all too often. Some of that is on the Republican side - they seem to like using her as a distraction - but some of that is Clinton herself. Who just refuses to go away.
And her true supporters laud her for that, even as the 2/3rds of the population who don't support her are sick of it.
I find myself wondering, why is she so desperate to hang on? Like - I know that you have to believe in yourself to run for office. That you have to convince yourself that you need to be the candidate, that nobody else can do it better. (After all, if they could do it better you'd drop out and vote for them...right?)
But at some point you have to understand the distinction between what's best for you and what's best for the party. And I really don't think Hillary hanging on is best for the party. She lost to one of the most unpopular presidential candidates ever. Some of that may be because of Russian meddling, or Comey, or any of the other excuses...but the race wouldn't have been close enough for those things to matter if she had been a better candidate in the first place.
The true believers act as though her years of experience were a good thing, since it proved nothing the Republicans did could stick. They were so focused on defeating the Republicans (and calling them out for all the 'lies' against their own candidates) that they didn't care at all about what the casual voter thought.
Or how it looked, that the entire Democratic party supported a candidate who was under an FBI investigation. After all, they all 'knew' the investigation was just Republican shenanigans, and not anything anyone should take seriously.
And now that the election is over, why, we've got better things to worry about. Like Trump. Or Russia. No need to look at how and why the entire Democratic party supported such a flawed candidate.
So much of the commentary on that tweet is avoiding exactly that.
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