Why Do You Hate Hillary So Much?
By: Holly Wood
Tags: Hillary Clinton, Politics

On Twitter, I’m fairly well-known to many for my anticapitalist tirades and my seemingly inexhaustible well of feminist outrage. My sense of justice is inflamed. I have no fucks left to give for half-ass apologetics.

So when people ask me why I hate Hillary Clinton, the answer should be clear: I think she’s reformist bullshit personified. I think she’s a woman who will lie to millions straight to their face that she cares about them and their struggles while making backroom deals with lobbyists hedging on wordchoice and legalese to make sure she’s never held accountable.

Today, I wake up and find that CNN had deleted every online poll that indicated that the viewers of that debate felt Bernie Sanders won by a landslide.

This is some straight-up Orwellian bullshit, friends.

I think (LOL, I KNOW) they did this because Hillary Clinton is bought by the same corporate bullshit that has bought out our journalism. They’re the same fucking machine churning out the same poll-tested garbage.

But why do I hate Hillary Clinton so much if I’m a Leftist Commie Feminist? Can’t I see what she’s trying to accomplish? She’s struggled! She’s so determined! She’s making the best of a bad situation.

Whatever.

Hillary Clinton has proven to me during this campaign that she’ll say practically anything to win. And because she’ll say practically anything to win, she crosses a lot of lines of authenticity that I will brook from no politician.

As a poor kid growing up in America, I have known no fucking safety net and I have known nothing but a political regime that continually shits on kids like me trying to do the right thing so that middle-class families can have another mortgage deduction. Hillary Clinton is everything I can’t stand in the American Left and she can rot for all I care, feminist or not.

Hillary Clinton is not from the South, but she’ll fake a Southern accent if she thinks that will make you like her.

Hillary Clinton has never known hunger, but she’ll pretend to know if it’ll mean you’ll vote for her.

She has never known what it’s like to work a monotonous manufacturing job with maybe the glimmer of a fucking hope of a 25-cent hourly raise after two years of good behavior.

She has never known what it’s like to stay awake with a toothache for 8 weeks in a row, hoping against reality that it will go away because you don’t have $400 to spend on a cavity.

She has never had to choose between which medications to pay for this month, choosing between pain relief or sanity, as if that’s any choice at all.

She has never watched her daughter suffer through her twenties from long-term unemployment because her connections have made Chelsea’s career success an all-assured inevitability.

She has never known the struggles of most Americans, but she’ll pretend she knows because she thinks that’s what will get her votes.

And fuck, maybe it will.

But I don’t have to like it. I don’t have to stand by and watch her momsplain educational inequity to my generation suffering under Atlassian debt by saying young people should work a few hours a week to pay down their tuition as if working part-time at Waffle House at $7.25 an hour will do fuck anything.

She’ll convince you her ideas are terribly reasonable, but she can’t convince me that her ideas aren’t terrible.

So yeah, you know what? Fuck Hillary Clinton.

We can do better.