The Establishment’s Escalating Pressure on Women to Support Hillary Clinton

It is a woman’s right as her own person to oppose a candidate who is an unethical, immoral, corporate sleazebag such as Hillary Clinton.

Rania Khalek's avatarDispatches from the Underclass

There is a sexist double standard, establishment columnists insist. Hillary Clinton can never yell about political revolution because she is a woman. Madeleine Albright wields one of her favorite lines and declares there is a “special place in hell” for women who do not help elect Clinton. Feminist icon Gloria Steinem suggests so many women at colleges and universities support Bernie Sanders instead of Clinton because they want to get with boys.

All of the above barely addresses the absurd identity politics, which increasingly dominates conversation about the 2016 presidential election.

What masquerades as a defense of women grows more and more offensive to women with legitimate reasons for not supporting Clinton.

On this week’s “Unauthorized Disclosure” podcast, we spend the hour with writer and guest host Roqayah Chamseddine talking about the madness in the 2016 presidential election. From “Bernie Bros” to how Hillary Clinton’s campaign and…

View original post 1,288 more words

Leave a comment