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I have some time to kill so I'll give you an honest answer.You guys just wait and pounce on dissenters as soon as they appear.
Honest question, do y'all even care about this e-mail stuff?
I kind of care. I care in that Hillary should have been more careful and that she should have gone out of her way to separate out any potential conflicts of interest while in office. And I typically believe that the more information, the better. So I like leaks in the sense that they give me more information about how the government works and how individuals act.
That said, I only care a little for a few reasons. One is that this has dragged on for a while and has the smell of the boy who cried wolf. Whether it's Bill, Hillary, Obama, even Bush... There's always this out-of-proportion media rush on any little transgression. And sometimes there is substance to it. But we've been through so many investigations and discussions about emails, so many leaks of personal emails that really the public has no business trying to digest, so many doomsday scenarios, but, when the smoke clears, we've never seen any major fire behind it. There's nothing like watergate in terms of magnitude. Instead we have some political dealings that are commonplace but that people unfamiliar with DC or in denial go crazy over.
Now looking at this election I see a very easy choice. I'll be clear -- I dislike Trump as a human being. But I'm trying really hard not to let that be the reason I don't vote for him since I ask that people who don't like Hillary as a person don't make that the reason they vote against her. What I see instead as the clear reasons to vote for Hillary over Trump are fairly simple and it doesn't come down to any specific policy or single issue, it doesn't come down to political ideology, it doesn't come down to any of that. For the first time in my life, I see a clear difference in how the two candidates approach life. How they approach humanity. How they approach challenges and dissenters. And for the first time I see a candidate who is publicly -- not just privately -- calling for and instigating the worst of America. And to me that is unacceptable. To me that trumps whether I think someone's tax plan will be better for the economy, or whether their foreign policy will lead to a safer US and a better world, or how many backroom deals they make. The reason is because it threatens what it means to be America in dangerous ways.
It just so happens that I agree with Hillary on a lot more policy issues than with Trump. I also hate how unprepared and unlearnt he is. I also am appalled by how the Republican party has carried themselves the past 8 years and I'm upset they have blocked the Supreme Court appointee. Any other year, those would be the top reasons why I vote for one side. But not this year.
And if you do care about corruption as the number 1 factor in choosing a candidate, I still come to the same conclusion when I put up what Hillary has done versus what Trump has done. It's still a crystal clear choice.
And as has been mentioned here before, wikileaks very easily take things out of context and are not digested well by the average person. So I take them with a grain of salt.
