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Originally posted by Achilles.
Conservative media and conspiracy theorists have spent three decades trying to utterly destroy her (and Bill) because she is such a capable, effective, and progressive politician.
They hated her when she became First Lady because she took an active role in politics (fighting for health care, women's rights, etc) instead of being a good little housewife like they thought a First Lady should be. Her popularity went down during her campaign for Senate and during both campaigns for President because Americans have a sexist aversion to women seeking positions of power.
Nearly everything that gets thrown at her—health concerns, Benghazi, emails, body count, "will cause a nuclear war on her period"—is made up or overexaggerated ******** aimed at discrediting and undermining her because they are so so afraid of her effectiveness and her progressivism. Even the issue of her being "dishonest" or "untrustworthy" is overplayed and overexaggerated. Hillary being "untrustworthy" was one of the few things they threw at her back in the 90s that really stuck, so they keep going on and on about how untrustworthy she is, despite the fact that nonpartisan fact checkers generally rank her as one of the more honest politicians around. (It's also the height of all irony that the GOP and conservative voters are calling Hillary "untrustworthy" when Trump is their candidate and he is extremely less honest than her).
I'm not saying that she's perfect—TPP, Wall Street, "superpredators" being some of her most glaring issues.
Unlike most, I don't hold the Iraq War vote against her because at the time everybody wanted that war and not supporting it was generally regarded as being extremely un-American, and I also forgive her for her "lateness" on marriage equality because she and Bill were, at the time of Bill's election, the most pro-gay (arguably first pro-gay) first couple in American history.
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Yes, that's true. They fact-checked her and she was one of the most honest ones.
I also agree about the Iraq War because as you said; it would've been too risky for her to be against it back then when everyone else was for it.
Overall, I find intelligence soothing and I think Hillary is very intelligent. She's trustworthy, imo.
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Originally posted by as926
I have tried to understand this too over the yeras, and found that this piece does a pretty good job of showing the different perspectives as to why some people just can't stand her. It does slant a bit to her side, as it subtly points out some of the double-standards inherent to a few of the criticisms, but it's a good read nonetheless: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a..._the_most.html
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Gender-bias is largely unconscious and to many people, so ubiquitous that they don't even recognize it themselves. People should keep this in mind.