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Why the Hogwarts Houses vote for Hillary
Gryffindor: who is braver than Hillary? Speaking up for women’s rights and gay rights in a room full of human rights violators? Defending late term abortion on national TV? Calling out a sometimes-violent bully while he’s trying to intimidate her? Racking up a million firsts? Literally when she was in college she was the first student commencement speaker and on the spot called out the US Senator who had spoken just before her because he was opposed to protesting. She’s been dragged six ways from Sunday over the course of decades and it’s never stopped her standing up for what she believes in. She’s courageous to the core and even in situations that would make other people cry, she keeps fighting.
Ravenclaw: does anyone know their shit or value policy like Hillary? On top of being brilliant and experienced, she values expertise. Her advisors include a Nobel-prize winning economist, a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, a former CIA director, a former Secretary of State (in addition to being one herself), and more community leaders, policy experts, think tank leaders, and top professors than you could count. Plus she makes a point of meeting with people like the Mothers of the Movement, which lets her integrate the kind of knowledge and experience that can’t come from books. Her bullpen is deep and her circles are broad. If you want a president who writes policy based on facts, if you care about having a president who knows their stuff and privileges knowledge, this is your candidate.
Hufflepuff: keeping people safe and healthy and creating opportunity has always been at the core of what Hillary does. Working for the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which lets 8 million kids go to the doctor? Making sure undocumented families can stay together? Keeping POC safe? Letting women choose? Fighting for LGBTQ rights? All part of Hillary’s past and her plan. She wants to reward hard work, too, with a $15 minimum wage and more protections for workers. She wants to make, and has been making, the playing field fairer and more open for everyone.
Slytherin: no one is better connected than Hillary; do you know how many people she’s supported, how many people owe her a favor? There are a million things the president can’t do on their own because they’re matters of state and local law: policing, traffic stops, sentencing for nonviolent offenses, most prison conditions, sex education, auto emissions, marriage and family law, conversion therapy bans, state tax policy, abortion restrictions. Hillary has helped so many people get elected over the last three decades, there are dozens and dozens of governors and mayors and state senators who owe her their careers and when she says “this is what we’re doing,” they’re gonna do it. That makes her a way more powerful potential president than anyone we’ve seen in decades.