Other than Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton is the second most disliked presidential candidate in this nation's history. She may be the frontrunner for the Democratic Party, but millennials really don't like her.
The disdain towards Clinton comes from liberals and conservatives. Conservatives don't like her ideas, claiming she's too much of a tax and spending liberal who pulls the woman card too often. Liberals don't like her ideas because her ideas aren't progressive as they'd like. And both sides have attacked her personal character.
As a millennial and a Bernie Sanders supporter, I'm always wondering to myself why any of my fellow liberal millennials would support Hillary Clinton, instead of Sanders. I took that curiosity, turned it into action and talked to Radford University student, and Hillary Clinton supporter, Madison Williams, and asked her about her support.
I'd first like to ask you why you support Hillary Clinton, and more specifically, why do you support her over Bernie Sanders?
I support Hillary Clinton because she has the most experience being the wife of a former president, she has been a legislator and is a foreign policy expert due to her experience as Secretary of State.
In my opinion, the Iraq War was the biggest foreign policy blunder in modern American history. She made the wrong call. What do you say to that?
I can't say I agree with her vote, but at the same time after 9/11, our world was in a state of panic. Being united with the sitting President on terrorism was good for the nation. In hindsight, giving President Bush carte blanche probably wasn't a good thing.
Does her evolution on gay marriage bother you? She was against it until 2013.
Her stance on gay marriage doesn't bother me. I'm glad she came around, and it's okay for people to change their minds and become more open minded.
What about her evolution on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? She called it the gold standard of trade, now she's against it.
Once again, people can change their minds when they become informed with more information. From my research, she made statements supporting it, but once she found out more information, she decided to come out against it. That's okay. Not every decision is made black and white. The world is made up of grey areas.
She also evolved on the Keystone Pipeline. She was an advocate for it, now she's against it.
She couldn't interfere with the decision-making process as the Secretary of State. Now that she isn't in that position, she can express her personal opinion. I don't see this as a big deal.
Do you trust Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders, considering she's flip flopped more than someone should be comfortable with?
I don't trust her more or less than Bernie. They are both experienced leaders and long term politicians.
What do you like about her foreign policy, considering she's quite conservative on those issues. Her advocacy of bombing Libya led to more instability, with no legitimate strategy for a regime change.
I like her foreign policy conservatism. I do believe that as a world superpower, we have to be somewhat conservative in our moves so that we can preserve peace and promote democracy for humankind.
Why is her college education plan, better than Sanders' plan?
As a college student, and a child of the working class, I feel I have the most to say here. I will be facing an enormous amount of student debt after my second year at Radford University. The rate of that, against the amount of pay I might find after graduation, is scary. I was lucky enough that my mother was able to save enough for me to go to college for a year, and maybe a half. After this, the bill is on me.
Her plan has more grants to allow college students to not incur debt and caps the deductions for higher incomes.
On the issue of healthcare, Hillary Clinton supports continuing Obamacare. But Bernie Sanders wants to move us to a Single Payer system. Why stick with Obamacare?
I like Obamacare, it is working. We need to give it more time to continue to work. While a single payer system may have some benefits, overhauling what took years for the government to put into place is not the right thing. Time, money, effort and effort would go into single payer, and we don't need that especially when we have tons of people getting affordable health care that never did before,
