I know that religion and politics are the two things you aren't supposed to bring up at a dinner party or in polite conversation, but I've always enjoyed thumbing my nose at things like that. It should be fairly obvious from my blogs which way I lean, but if it isn't I just want to say that I am a very liberal democrat, and that I support the "socialist Jew" as some of his opponents have called him (which is hilarious, since those same opponents all claim to be Christian while not acting very like that, yet Jesus himself was a socialist Jew).
I told somebody that, and they told me that I don't support Rubio, Cruz or Carson because I "don't like black or Hispanic people); then, some democrats have told me that I don't support Hilary because I'm "not a feminist and just don't get it". Both of these things are hilarious and yet sad.
Let's start with the first part. I don't support any of those three candidates because they all are bumbling idiots who couldn't even do the job they were elected to right (in the case of Cruz and Rubio), much less be responsible for running a country. It has nothing to do with their race and everything to do with the fact that they have no new ideas, want to continue doing what Dubya did which helped fuck this country up, or return it to some "magical time" in our past when we were "great". In this magical time, women stayed in the kitchen, those "pesky minorities knew their place", and being gay or non-Christian meant you had no rights. Sorry, but those times were horrible, and I'm glad we've moved forward as a country. What's hilarious is, nobody says I hate my own race because I don't support Trump or Bush or Christie (and those 3 are just as big a fuck-up as the previous three I named). And, the main reason I won't support a Republican is (for the most part), they seem to be the party of fear-mongering to get elected (it's the gays fault, it's Planned Parenthood's fault, it's ISIL's fault).
Now, onto Hilary. If you only vote for a female candidate because she is female, you are just as bad as someone who refuses to vote for her because she's a woman. Both are equally offensive. Feminism is about equality, which should mean that you choose who you feel is the best candidate by their beliefs and their opinions, not their gender. And, to me, I feel that Bernie is the best candidate to help this country out. It has nothing to do with him being a man or his religion, but more to do with how I feel about his policies.
I have plenty of friends that are multi-cultural or of a different nationality than myself (hells, my GF is Iranian), but I have never sought somebody out just because of the color of their skin (or what religion they are, which really works since I'm pagan and my GF is atheist). I choose who I want to hang around or associate with by how they are as a person; their skin pigmentation or whatever invisible voice they pray to (or not) has absolutely no bearing on that. I view my candidates the same way. Hopefully, most people will do the same (I think that we'll get there one day). Take care of yourselves, take care of each other, and have a great day everyone!