Another reason not to vote for Hillary

There's a host of issues that should be used as a litmus test to automatically preclude you from voting for a candidate based on their stance. If a candidate supports continuing the war or work-for-less laws, I would not vote for them. The same is true of the unconstitutional idea of mandatory uniforms in public schools.

On all these issues, I would give the benefit of the doubt to any national Democrat - unless their stated position is otherwise. However, while Hillary Clinton has not come out in favor of unconstitutional right-to-scab legislation, she has favored the war all along and has unequivocally come out in support of school uniforms.

The latter stance is one you don't hear much about, because the media just expects it to not be a major issue. But it is. School uniforms are almost like a cult: The policy trains people early in life to accept groupthink. So it has a lifelong impact.

Support for uniforms is often associated with Bill Clinton's right-wing 1996 State of the Union address. Hillary Clinton supports the discredited idea too: This past fall, the candidate expressed her support for school uniforms in a speech to Iowa teachers.

At the same time, however, Chicago teacher Will Okun pointed out in a New York Times article that the highest-performing schools do not have uniforms. One public high school near Chicago that has almost no dress code to speak of is one of the highest-ranked in the whole state of Illinois. On standardized tests, the 3 highest-scoring schools in Illinois are public schools in the city of Chicago that do not require uniforms.

Are the uniform cultists going to claim standardized tests are wrong now? Usually they're the same people who also worship standardized testing, so they can't have it both ways. (This also reinforces my point that urban public schools often outperform suburban private schools by far - a fact that's always denied by the suburban Establishment.)

Furthermore, the article says studies prove uniforms are a failure. The most detailed study ever on uniforms, which was published in the Journal of Educational Research, says that "a negative effect of uniforms on student academic achievement was found."

School uniforms - considered a panacea by the Clintons, Bush, and other rightists - are such a shallow idea, but it affects people deeply. (Bush's support for uniforms has been swept under the rug by the media almost completely.)

Because of this, I would not vote for Hillary Clinton, even in the general election. Absolutely no way, no how, no when, no where. Her uniform support makes her seem like an Allowed Cloud personified. If any other candidate was known to support making uniforms mandatory in public schools, I wouldn't vote for them either.

In Midwestern cities, we take the Constitution seriously. If Clinton gets the nomination, it's not my problem if the Democrats want to bleed our votes to third parties.

(Source: http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/30/a-uniform-solution)