History was made on June 7, 2016, when Hillary Clinton became the first female major party nominee in the history of the U.S., finally beating out Bernie Sanders for supremacy in the Democratic Party and seemingly revitalizing that lost euphoric feeling of progress from 2008 when Barack Obama became the first African American party nominee, beating the same person he is endorsing for the presidency in 2016.
While many on the left of the political spectrum rejoiced in the fact that for three election cycles in a row they have boasted more diverse candidates compared to the old-white vanguard of the decaying Republican Party, that appears to be all that they are celebrating. The “I’m Ready for Hillary” slogan that has been appearing on billboards and bumper stickers across the U.S. is all that it is worth celebrating to them. At the end of the day, it wasn’t because a champion of morality and humanistic ideals won out, but because a woman beat a man. Nothing more, nothing less, and many young voters feel the same way.
Whenever you see someone say that they will vote for Hillary Clinton in the upcoming election, they will often reply “because she is a woman.” Not a very thoughtful answer, nor is it a thoughtful reason to elect someone to the office of the presidency. However, the media helped influence this decision long before Bernie lost by planting this idea of valiant “social justice” that would come of electing a female president just for the purpose of having a woman in the White House.
But what are Hillary’s policies? For starters, many of Hillary’s policies are similar to that of President Obama’s, where the running gag of “Obama’s Third Term” originates with the Clinton campaign, but what about some of her policies in the past? Hillary Clinton voted in favor for the invasion of Iraq in 2003 while serving as a senator. She held a position on the Board of Directors at Wal-Mart and pushed for the import of cheap goods from the People’s Republic of China in the early 1990s, the same trend that is costing millions of Americans their jobs and has compromised the American economy. She worked at the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas and defended Thomas Alfred Taylor, a convicted child predator who was allowed to walk free by finding a loophole in the prosecution, mainly by saying that the sixth grader had lied in the past and desired an “older man” like Taylor. The woman who touted herself as the champion of women and children defended and freed a child molester, but what does that matter when a woman who is so close to being in the White House, right?
But the apple of the Republican Party’s eye is the Benghazi Fiasco in 2012 that seemingly ruined her name as Secretary of State and soiled the touted-successful policies of the Obama Administration overseas, especially on the heels of the Arab Spring and the ousting of Gadhafi in Libya. Remember how she passed the attack off as a “spontaneous demonstration” stemming from a video on YouTube that the attackers found “offensive?” Remember how they arrested that Egyptian filmmaker who made said video?
Then there is the email controversy that came shortly after — how she deleted emails on a private server relating to key details about how the Benghazi attack played out and if forces could have been sent in sooner. Her name was dragged through the national mud even more, and still is as there is the possibility that she could be indicted for it.
Now, after reading this, you’re probably thinking “is he endorsing Trump?” No, I am not endorsing Donald Trump for president. This election is a battle of two evil people, but one side shouldn’t win based on gender alone. It's a hard concept in the U.S. now, but just because someone is a woman or non-white doesn’t make them more qualified for a position. Don’t get me wrong, I am ready for a female president… just as long as it isn’t Hillary Rodham Clinton.
