The Hill Haters

RANT OF THIS CYCLE: I find it rather disturbing at how many people so readily turn their anger against Hillary Clinton. The email nonsense is as good a reflection of this as is "the real" Trump embarrassment a reflection of everything that could possibly go wrong with the spoiling of an American. Yet he gets further rewarded (like he needs it), and she has to work harder to prove the negative of a strong and committed woman.

If The Hill is guilty of anything -- I doubt she is and was annoyed when she apologized -- it is of demonstrating as clearly as possible that the US is so badly behind in the creation of, evolution of and use of electronic transmission and communication systems. We really are. (Which, BTW, is why otherwise smart people think yelling about drones is so important. It is a natural extension of the military hate that we've built into our culture!).

In simple, very simple terms: We all know how to email, though with very little recognition of the hows and whys of what it does let alone of the implications of putting messages into the virtual spaces. Yet we do it, and we have convinced ourselves that it matters little. And I blame this ignorance on the government haters who use all of their energy to try to hold back the water of progress. If conservatarians hadn't weakened government with budget starvations so badly we'd have smarter systems, and we'd take pride in learning how to use them. Instead, we flounder and throw darts at others.

Stupid hating.

She did the same as we all would have done -- likely no more or no less. Her "fault" lies in doing it with the confidence of a woman who has grown used to being wrapped in the comfort of visibility. For this she needs to be recognized, not pressed and pressed and pressed and then hated. It's just nonsense, no matter what is in her emails.

The Hill Haters are that way because they have entirely given up on understanding the processes of technological advancement, and so they are taking out their frustrations and lack of understanding on a resilient, visible, female target. Perfection is fleeting, but many women deserve more credit for what they do than we give them.

Women know that they have to work too much harder to get to and stay in the domain of the successful. That so many of us (often men) denigrate that by making this woman fight to stay where we SHOULD want her to be is ludicrous ... and we should be as ashamed of that as we need be of letting Trump yank our chains.