{"id":245819,"date":"2016-05-25T08:27:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T08:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-i-am-neverhillary\/"},"modified":"2016-05-26T00:54:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T00:54:10","slug":"why-i-am-neverhillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-i-am-neverhillary\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Am #NeverHillary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_82981\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 510px;\"><\/div>\n<p>Hillary Clinton\u2019s coronation at the Democratic national convention is likely but not a foregone conclusion. Since the superdelegates won\u2019t vote until July, and neither she nor Bernie Sanders will arrive in\u00a0Philadelphia\u00a0with the requisite number of pledged delegates to clinch the nomination, there is still the possibility that the party bosses will see sense, internalize the polls that show she\u2019s weaker than him against Trump, and push the superdelegates to support the populist senator from Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>But sense is in short supply in American politics, especially this year. So I\u2019m preparing for the worst: Hillary versus Trump.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one hell of a choice. The more I delve into Donald Trump and his past (to research my biography, which comes out in June), the more scared I get. Nevertheless, there is no way I\u2019ll vote for Hillary. I won\u2019t vote for her if she stops shaking down rich right-wing Republicans for donations. I won\u2019t vote for her if she adopts Bernie\u2019s platform. I won\u2019t vote for her if she names Bernie her vice president. I won\u2019t even vote for her if Bernie invites me to spend the summer with him and Jane in Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>#NeverHillary. That\u2019s me.<\/p>\n<p>There are millions of us.<\/p>\n<p>Many progressives are baffled by this stance. Trump is a threat to democracy, decency, peace and the economy. He acts and talks like a nut. Why not suck it up and vote for Hillary? She\u2019s experienced, steady and presentable.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Trump, she understands the issues. Plus: first woman president! That\u2019s 225 years overdue!<\/p>\n<p>Here is my reasoning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/05\/24\/why-i-am-neverhillary\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton\u2019s coronation at the Democratic national convention is likely but not a foregone conclusion. Since the superdelegates won\u2019t vote until July, and neither she nor Bernie Sanders will arrive in\u00a0Philadelphia\u00a0with the requisite number of pledged delegates to clinch the nomination, there is still the possibility that the party bosses will see sense, internalize the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-245819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}