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Home of the Brave

Why People Vote for Hillary Clinton

Home of the Brave

Scott Carrier

Society And Culture

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Plus some of Clinton's speech in Fresno, California, June 4, 2016.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Home of the Brave. I'm Scott Carrier. I may be wrong, but it seems everyone now

0:09.2

accepts as fact that America is no longer a democracy. Now we have an oligarchy or a plutocracy

0:17.0

where a relatively few really rich people control our government. There was a study out of Princeton University a couple of years

0:25.2

ago that came to this conclusion and it's been Bernie Sanders main argument and I haven't heard

0:30.6

anyone say it isn't true because we know it's true and

0:35.0

strangely enough many Americans like it this way. For instance

0:40.3

Hillary Clinton is from the oligarchy, she is of the oligarchy, and yet more people,

0:46.7

the Democratic majority chose her over Bernie Sanders.

0:50.8

I went to California last week before the presidential primary to talk to people

0:56.7

who support Hillary Clinton because I wanted to know why. How does it work when you

1:02.2

have a choice that you choose Clinton over Sanders?

1:06.5

Also, I wanted to go to a Clinton rally and I ended up seeing her speak in Fresno.

1:25.0

My first stop was Lake Tahoe, the California side, because basically I was driving around talking to people at random and Tahoe seemed like a good place to start up high surrounded by snow-covered mountains the pine trees coming all the way down to

1:29.5

sandy beaches. There was a woman at one of the public beaches. There was a woman at one of the public beaches, a wildlife biologist checking boats

1:36.4

for invasive species, Jackie S. Granfield.

1:40.4

She has experience.

1:42.1

I mean, you know, if you look at it like she's applying for a job with all the American public.

1:51.0

Well, she's got a hell of a resume. I mean, better than anybody I've ever seen in my lifetime.

1:58.0

I kind of wish she'd lose those tent jacket things that she wears.

2:05.0

She looks great.

2:09.6

I am not keen on her thing with corporations and campaign finance and stuff. That bothers me.

2:17.0

The things people distrust her for, and maybe I think in small part it's because I'm a woman and I understand how she thinks

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