Why Hillary?

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Clay Rodgers, Guest Writer

Save us. We’re all going to die. I’m moving to Canada. All popular phrases from this year, and for good reason. There is a legitimate chance that the most powerful country in the world is going to be led by an inexperienced “business” man who lies every few minutes (according to PolitiFact) and doesn’t quite seem to get how the government works.

Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for president this election, is also under investigation for fraud, claimed that President Obama was not born in the United States, has threatened to sue investigative journalists and has suggested that blowing up Iranian sailors of the coast of Iran would not start a war. This is also the man who could potentially be in charge of the most powerful military in global history in a few months. Does that sound scary?

It should.

However, the Democratic nominee for president, Hillary Clinton, has done none of these things. She is a former secretary of state, senator, and first lady, so she has experience with how the government works. She isn’t exactly perfect, however. During her time as secretary of state, she used a private email server, which is less secure than the one provided by the government. Even though use of a private server is not illegal, it does put top secret government information at a larger risk of being stolen.

In fact, various hackers have claimed to have hacked into Clinton’s server, but none of these claims have been verified.

However, it would be a false equivalaency to say that her scandals match up with Trump’s fraud. Hillary’s problems, although severe, are infinitely less significant than Trump’s, and her platform is very close to what most people support, whereas Trump has no policies, except for a ‘wall.’

Clinton is also seen as elitist and secretive, which leaves some former Bernie Sanders supporters disenfranchised with her campaign. Because of this, Clinton has had big problems appealing to the more liberal youth, a sizeable part of the Democratic electorate. To make things worse, there is clear evidence that the DNC rigged the primary elections against Bernie, which doesn’t make Hillary’s appeal any better. This whole matter has given rise to third party candidates, such as Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party and Jill Stein of the Green Party. Since we live in California, a heavily Democratic state, there is little danger in voting third party. However, in battleground states like Ohio and Florida, the risk is too high to take.

If you’re like me and would be content with a capable, intelligent, experienced person in office, even if they don’t completely match your personal policy positions, Hillary is the obvious choice. Trump has shown signs of being an all-out psychopath, and brags about sexually assulting women. An unstable, delusional, lying con-artist is not who we need as our president. We need an experienced, motivated, professional-grade president. Hillary Clinton is that candidate.