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I honestly struggle w/ this. Never voted R, loved Bernie but still canvassed and went SO hard campaigning for Hillary when DNC said so.
Later, I read Ronan Farrow's excellent book/expose about Harvey Weinstein, which revealed (among many other things) that Hillary Clinton knew soooo much (to the point where victims even reached out to her personally thinking she must not know he's a dangerous rapist lol).
I can't believe I was forced to vote for a woman who chose to actively enable and protect him b/c he donated over a million dollars himself and ran fundraisers in his house for her 2016 bid. This was gonna be our first woman president.
Hearing she dismissed his female victim in face to face conversation made me so sick. That truly upset me more than the fact that she has obviously been 100% lying post arrest whenever she claimed to not have known what Weinstein's #1 hobby was.
This might sound super naive. But I was too young to really know about Bill Clinton's serial raping and sexual assault history long before becoming President or that he tried to use that to get out of his sexual assault cases, etc. I foolishly thought he made one sleazy mistake with Lewinsky and that must have shocked Hillary lol.
So I do feel frustrated about ever donating time/money. Like I got especially conned by Hillary Clinton that the DNC/democrats cared about advancement of women's rights or sexual abuse/violence against women and girls.
Then Biden admin turns his own VAWA into a joke and chooses two openly AGP/fetishistic "women" picks.
Biden, Newsom/Weiner/etc forcing women to room with convicted male rapists and pedophiles was the last the last straw for me.
This is 100% a Democrat powered civil rights violation. I worry that they would rather get rid of people like Jonah than ever admit they are hurting women and girls.
That’s so upsetting to hear about Hillary knowing about Harvey Weinstein! I didn’t know that.
I’m so frustrated at Democrats too.