I’m Voting For Bernie Because I’m a Feminist

Albright and Steinem, speaking on different days in different environments, offered comments that are by now familiar: “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other”, said Albright, who was the first female us secretary of state.

“I have spent my entire adult life working toward making sure that women are empowered to make their own choices, even if that choice is not to vote for me”, Clinton said. Instead, she is implying that young men are basing their political decisions on factors more legitimate than young women are. “And when you’re younger, you think: ‘Where are the boys?”

Sanders, who has made campaign finance reform a cornerstone of his candidacy, also hit Clinton for the large corporate donations to a Super PAC backing her run.

In an interview with HBO host Bill Maher, writer and activist Gloria Steinem sounded like your peevish great aunt at Thanksgiving.

Steinem backed off from her stance on Sunday in a post on her Facebook page.

Unmentioned by Steinem and other feminists like her is Hillary’s role in delegitimizing the victims of her husband over the course of his political career.

One keeps hearing the narrative that young women know little about Hillary Clinton because she and whatever she did were before their time. It was also nearly same ratio that Sanders performed in the category of young male voters. I did not say thank you for the vote. But the damaging stereotypes that plague women the world over-aging women are bitter, joyless nags who’ve worn out their welcome, while young women are capricious, boy-crazy navel gazers-can tint feminist politics, too. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), won 55% of the female vote in that primary.

There are many reasons why Sanders is a magnet for young males beyond the fact that Clinton’s bid to become the first female president may not resonate as much with them.

Let me back up for a moment and acknowledge that it’s perfectly possible that millennial women are being swayed against Clinton by sexist forces that permeate our culture so insidiously we don’t even recognize them anymore.

“What I had just said on the same show was the opposite”, she went on to say.

All of the women in Congress, current and former, can tell stories of the difference they’ve made simply because they were in the room.

These recent controversial comments stem from a broader campaign strategy, with Clinton leveraging high-profile (and often white and wealthy) self-avowed feminists to bolster her campaign. Any politician I choose to support will never be free from criticism or an expectation of accountability – but they can rest easy knowing that I chose to support them because I took the time to think for myself. “I will do everything I can to make certain that the United States and our courageous men and women in the military do not get bogged down in perpetual warfare in the Middle East”, he said.

Rep. Dina Titus, who represents the Las Vegas area, said she expects Clinton to have a turnaround among women voters in the Nevada caucuses a week from Saturday. Albright spoke at a Clinton rally and stated that “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other!”

She explained “in the excitement of a campaign event” for Clinton in New Hampshire she trotted out a line she’d delivered “a thousand times” before to good effect.

Bamberg County Schools Superintendent Thelma Sojourner (left) introduces Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during a forum at Denmark-Olar Elementary School in Denmark, South Carolina, February 12, 2016.

Ms Clinton said she is running for President to knock down all the barriers that are holding Americans back, and to rebuild the ladders of opportunity that will give every American a chance to advance, especially those who have been left out and left behind.

Lee Miringhoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, said just as Clinton’s best demographic is older women, Sanders’ is younger men who tend to consider themselves independents, which have always been a key component of the New Hampshire electorate.