Because it’s an ugly sexist myth that Hillary Clinton has never gotten anything done, and Donald keeps saying it anyway, because he knows his supporters will never bother to look it up. (Also to distract from his own record of bankruptcies and lawsuits and not getting an Emmy.)
And even on the left, you get people saying “how can we trust Clinton, even if her positions sound good, how can we know if she’ll follow through?”
Gee, I dunno, maybe we can look at her forty-year track record and extrapolate from there.
(Buckle up, this one’s gonna get long.)
In fact, let’s go back farther, let’s look at Hillary Rodham the Wellesley undergrad, 1965-1969:
1975: you may have heard that this was the year when Hillary was the (court-appointed) defense attorney for a rapist (who pled guilty)
but you probably haven’t heard what she did next:
She founded the first rape-crisis counseling hotline in Arkansas
And this was not a symbolic gesture
This was not something she halfassed for the sake of looking good
Hillary made herself a nationally-renowned expert in the field
Listen: “In 1975, I helped start the first rape crisis center in Atlanta.
I was
trying to navigate the legal issues related to child assault victims,
but the law was so new, I was lost, so I asked for help. Everywhere I
called, the experts would say, ‘Do you know Hillary Rodham? She’s who
you need to talk to.‘”
Improving our preparedness for public health emergencies, including
funding for NHS workers, more consideration for at-risk individuals, and uniform coordination of electronic response systems across
states
Look, I’m not saying there will be a zombie apocalypse
I’m just saying, HRC has taken into account the needs of children, people with disabilities, and people with limited Englishif there’s a zombie apocalypse
btw, this was 6 years before the Ice Bucket Challenge
Hillary Clinton: Cares About Stuff Before It Goes Viral
Mapping broadband access across the US, particularly in rural and native
communities, so we can compare our progress to other countries and
identify barriers for getting high-speed internet access everywhere
At this point she was also running for President, but in swept Barack Obama and charmed the hearts of America, so Clinton ended up serving as his Secretary of State from 2009-2013.
There’s no Big Flashy Showpiece you can point to from Secretary Clinton’s tenure. A lot of her diplomatic work was straight-up post-Bush-administration repair work and maintenance. A lot of it was, frankly, unsexy. No one writes breathless headlines about statistically-supported initiatives to distribute lifesaving low-pollution stoves.
Also, she didn’t singlehandedly bring peace to the Middle East. So, y’know, missed opportunity there.
”…the State Department’s 2012 fiscal-year request includes $1.2 billion
in programs specifically targeting women, $832 million of which will go
toward global health initiatives. Tellingly, comparisons with past years
can’t be made, since the department only started tracking women-focused
dollars in 2010.“
And, look: no one is saying she’s only done good things. You can’t work this long in politics and expect to make only the right choices – follow only the strongest intelligence – back only the best policies. Reasonable people can find plenty to disagree with in her record. Plenty to criticize.
But when people try to claim she’s done nothing?
Or that she doesn’t have any consistent beliefs or principles – that her record doesn’t have constant themes that she’s been reliably standing for since the 1970s?
Hillary Clinton has made real, substantial progress for women’s rights.
Real, substantial progress for people with disabilities.
Real, substantial progress for the rights and protections of children.
Anyone tries to tell you otherwise, you laugh in their faces and
start listing things. I bet you anything they run out of patience before you run out of list.
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Anonymous asked: You better lockdown your inbox if trump wins. They will not let you hear the end of it.
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Man I’m gonna lock down my goddamn COUNTRY if Trump wins.
Anonymous asked: I want Donald Trump to t-pose into the oval office and assume power. Killing america instantly
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Where’s the speedrun exploit we can use to skip the next 4 years?
If you crouch in a polling station in florida by a potted plant, you clip right through the map into the loading zone for the next election.
