The slaughtering of Hilary's character is getting out of hand. I overheard a conversation in the break room at work today where someone said that they can't believe that Bill and Hilary aren't in prison for murdering that teenage girl.
I stopped, turned around and asked them where the hell they heard that. They responded "Facebook"
This shit happened in the 90s constantly. 8 straight years of it. It's why I've always been quick to the remind the "OMG, Obama is getting the worse treatment evar!" crowd that there is nothing new under the sun here. Dumbasses gonna dumbass. Only, back then, the Clintons were getting it from the Right. Now they're getting it from them and the Far Left. Though Clinton has been a punching bag for detached Leftists for years. Obama is too, really. He's governed as a centrist and will go down as having a very solid to good Presidency, all things considered. And they dislike him now too. Far Left is as legitimately dumbass as the Far Right. Always has been.
Right Wingers are what they are...whatever. It's the Left Wing that you should expect more from. Also, I don't hold college students to the same standard I hold 40, 50, 60 year olds that should know better. We were all idealists of one sort of another when we were younger. Then reality smacks you in the face, and you realize that every young generation before you, after you, and including yours, wonders (has wondered or will wonder) why their ancestors can't get shit right.
It's because the thing is rigged and can't be fixed very easily. Especially not with highly ideological answers that have never really solved anything in world history. The best systems are amalgamates of ideas. Slow progress. Not because it's what we all want but because it's all that can happen in the real world. Deal with the reality or be a wing nut that never effectuates anything. Barack Obama is more of a progressive champion, as a fairly moderate President, than any Left Winger in the Unites States in 70 years. Because he got some shit done for the cause. You either understand this or you don't.
Listen, I like Bernie and I truly wish we had more people with his integrity in DC. I wish he had better, more realistic, ideas too. And I think it's unfair to hold his candidacy in a negative light because he's got some idiots that support him. They all have idiots that support them. Idiots are everywhere on all sides, in all shapes and sizes. Hence, the position the country is in today. I know that's condescending to say...but it's also true.