Probably going to change my vote
Because I've had it. Hillary Clinton is not a Republican, or a baby-killer, or a fascist, or evil, or a liar, or any of the hundreds of smears she is painted with here and to a lesser extent by Sanders supporters who appear on television.
The most admired woman in the world for 20 years straight and counting is not the evil monster she is being painted as by so many people who like to claim to be democrats.
My theory for why younger people hate Clinton so much is that they have grown up listening to the hate-filled right wing attack machine for the past 20 years.
The facts of her life and accomplishments do not line up with what is said about her.
I was old enough during the Clinton Administration that I actually remember it and don't have to rely on the lying liars in the pundit class for their version of reality.
Why do so many fall for it. These are the same people who spread absolute lies about Obama on a daily basis.
My original plan was to vote for Sanders in the primary (RI - late primary so usually doesn't matter) and then Clinton in the general. Because while I, as a New Englander, have known who Sanders was for a very long time, most people had never heard of him, plus I didn't think his ideas would gain much traction in mainstream America. I still don't think they will. I do not believe there is any way he could win a national election. The Republicans are laying off of him right now but that won't be the case for much longer.
I self-identify as a Socialist - and not with a mamby-pamby qualifier of Democratic Socialist.
I also think people are so foaming at the mouth hating on Clinton because of sexism. The same type of sexism as the racism that Obama faces.
If people on the left truly believe (as I do) that a lot of the reason for the not-reality-based hatred of Obama comes from racism, why don't they believe the frothing at the mouth Clinton hatred is not somewhat based on unexamined sexism?
Just felt the need to vent after coming back to DU after a self-imposed break and seeing the absolutely irrational, foaming at the mouth Clinton Derangement Syndrome that has infected DU so badly.
I like Sanders, I like O'Malley (I hope he runs again in the future - he's young) and as my former governor, I even liked Linc.
I know I'm rambling, but this was a lot more clear in my head. I am voting for Clinton in my primary now.
Edited to add - I will not be replying to any negative comments.
Also edited to add something I meant to talk about and forgot to put it in my post.
I was anti Iraq war in 2003. It was a very lonely position. Something like upward of 80% of Americans were for it. I don't feel like looking up the numbers right now but it was an embarrassingly high number. For all of the people who claim they won't vote for her because she voted for the authorization of use of force, I would bet cash-money that most of them were pro that war at that time. I remember that time as being extremely lonely if you weren't a flag-waving, lets go kill some A-Rabs (sarcasm) American - revisionist history is fun! And I won't believe people who say they were anti Iraq war if they don't prove it because if you ask people now, of course they were against it! Well, the numbers from back then don't lie. If all the people who claim they were against it back then ACTUALLY were, we never would have went!
I lost a lot of friends between 2001 and 2003 - mostly because I was against both Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
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Glad to have you aboard.
When I hear someone refer to all the "scandals" she's involved in, I realize the majority of them are created and promoted by FOX. Shrub had a term for it: Catapult the propaganda.
Exactly, gaspee. But I guess reality has a Hillary bias.
Glad to have you join us.
And out on my own, fully self-supporting at 16 too 
I am about two years older. My first political memory is of "Watergate", but I envisioned it as a bunch of white guys in suits sitting crosslegged on a dam 
My parents were talking about it ALL the time, bit I was too young to really get what it was about.
I also think that the "youngs" are rightfully pissed about what is going on in the country, but mistaken about the cause. Most whites vote Republican. True story. This is because (as you know) LBJ passed and enforced the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. He was the most conniving, bare knuckle pol on the planet, but when the door opened for those timelessly moral pieces of legislation, he walked through. He RAN. Because he saw the coalition as the best way to get really liberal policy passed. Because the man, for all his flaws, was a flaming liberal on social issues. Too bad about Vietnam, but there it is 
Blacks and liberal whites have banded together, trying to hold the line on the rest of the white people, ever since, but we do not always have the numbers to do that. And the youngs MUST UNDERSTAND how important it is for them to turn out every single goddam fucking election. Not just in presidential years or when they are super-stoked about a particular candidate. THAT is where we lose the ground. And that is not Clinton's fault, or the Democratic Party's. It is not old Democrat's fault because we have been showing up and fighting these pricks fro a LONG time.
It is a failure of the liberal coalition to show up when it matters. Voting is NOT fucking hard either. I don't buy that people need a charismatic leader to do it. I don't like brushing my teeth, but I do it because I like HAVING teeth. Voting is the same. Not fun in the moment, but better than GOP.
The Clintons are pragmatists who go under the heading of politicians who do what they need to do to get elected but basically have their hearts in the right place. Living in the South now, I can see the difference between them and really conservative Dems. And I will take, even campaign for, a conservative Dem any day if the choice is between them and a GOP troll.
GOPs got control of our state house and have made all sorts of heinous laws to make it harder for BOTH black and college voters. They are terrified of both groups. Ever heard of a state Dem coalition making laws so college kids can't vote? Me neither. And that alone says who the real enemy is.
I am with you on policy. Yes to single-payer and minimum income. But first, I think we need to deal with racism and inequality. And none of that has the political will right now, so in the meantime, we need to hold the line on the Supreme Court and reproductive rights. Maybe try to cut down on the number of black men police murder. Get the finance law as it relates to student loans improved. Keep tweaking ACA. Those things we can do. Those things are good and incredibly useful to many Americans. In politics, perfect is the enemy of good.
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Loved everything that you wrote, I think we're at a turning point and people are fed up! Your line about "My theory for why younger people hate Clinton so much is that they have grown up listening to the hate-filled right wing attack machine for the past 20 years." I think is bang on, I agree so much.
I'm not replying to the negative comments anymore either, I've lost all tolerance in it. 
I believe you're in the right place!
Well said. Lots of what you said is good stuff. welcome in our little place of peace--for the most part--but we have good mods who take care of the rife raft. 
I'm sorry someone alerted on it.
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