{"id":24186,"date":"2016-10-13T13:29:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T20:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24186"},"modified":"2016-10-13T13:29:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T20:29:47","slug":"robert-reich-vote-for-hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/13\/robert-reich-vote-for-hillary\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Reich: Vote for Hillary"},"content":{"rendered":"

You probably think I’m sounding like a broken record, but you’ll only have me harassing you about this for less than  a month.  In the interim, I offer no apology.  The stakes are just too damn high.  But don’t listen to me.  And don’t listen to the Reich on the Right, The Republican Reich, including their proxies brought to you by Putin.  Listen to the Reich on the Left, Robert Reich.  He admonishes progressives to vote for Hillary.<\/font><\/p>\n

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I continue to hear from many people who call themselves progressives or liberals, but tell me they won\u2019t vote for Hillary Clinton in the upcoming election.<\/p>\n

With due respect, I believe they\u2019re wrong.<\/p>\n

Herewith, their three major arguments and my responses.<\/p>\n

Some claim she\u2019s no better than Donald Trump. \u201cHe\u2019s bad, but she\u2019s just as bad,\u201d they say.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sorry, but anyone who equates Trump with Clinton hasn\u2019t been paying attention.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Donald Trump is a dangerous, bigoted, misogynistic, narcissistic megalomaniac with fascist tendencies. If elected president he could wreak irreparable damage on America and the world.<\/p>\n

Hillary isn\u2019t perfect but she\u2019s able and experienced. I\u2019ve known her for almost fifty years and worked with her closely in her husband\u2019s administration. She will make a good president.<\/p>\n

There is simply no comparison<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From <Robert Reich<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

I shared one of the three major arguments.  Please click through to read about the other two.<\/font><\/p>\n

You certainly have the right to vote for whomever you choose, but you ought to recognize that failure to vote strategically by voting for a candidate, who cannot win, has consequences that extend far beyond the feel-good protest value you derive from it.  If you refuse to recognize that saving this nation from Trump carries more weight than feeling good, than be prepared to accept responsibility for consequences.  At least 2000 Nader voters have one valid excuse.  They didn’t realize how dire the consequences were.  Today, it’s obvious.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You probably think I’m sounding like a broken record, but you’ll only have me harassing you about this for less than  a month.  In the interim, I offer no apology.  The stakes are just too damn high.  But don’t listen to me.  And don’t listen to the Reich on the Right, The Republican Reich, including […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}