2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: A study in vindictiveness: If Bernie loses, his backers maynot be there 4 Hillary in November [View all]Lorien
(31,935 posts)No, as we keep saying: IT"S ABOUT THE ISSUES! Hillary has done it to herself bt behaving like a right wing authoritarian on such issues as:
Iraq
TPP
KXL
Pro arctic drilling
Pro for Profit Prisons
Pro Monsanto
Bankruptcy bill
Voting for a border fence
Saying child migrants should be sent home
Using her position as SoS to push fracking on the rest of the world
Wall Street donations
Six digit speaking fees
Taking money from weapons deals
Honduras
Comments about nuking Iran
Voted to raise credit card interest rates
NAFTA
DOMA
DADT
Opposing gay marriage in New York State
Brownbeck Amendments
Glass-Steagall
No living wage
No free college
No universal health care (ACA coverage gap....ACA will never provide UHC)
No medical Marijuana
Supports mandatory sentencing
Says that she's "proud of" the way Walmart does business
Libya
Yemen
Syria
Egypt
United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
Free trade - Oman agreement
Voted FOR Gitmo. --- Hillary voted against the Byrd ammendment and against a large majority of democrats to reduce Guatanamo funding by $36,000,000. She joined the republican majority against the majority of democrats in supporting Guantanamo.
Pro death penalty
Pro cluster bombing
and so much more!!
Does anyone really think that Bernie's campaign is about a cranky old Brooklyn born Jew? He's honest, he's consistent, he unites people to get good things done, and he's on the correct side of the issues. The problems with Hillary are too numerous to count (and none of them are in any way gender based). I honestly don't believe that she could ever win a general election because of them. Bottom line: it's the DNC's duty to back a left of center candidate to represent us. It's not the voter's duty to change their positions of the issues and bend to the will of the DNC just to elect someone who is "less awful" than the opposition.
Hillary wants to attack Iran: http://www.globalresearch.ca/hillary-clinton-if-im-president-we-will-attack-iran/5460484
Bernie has a MUCH better record of accomplishments as Senator than Hillary does: https://pplswar.wordpress.com/2015/10/21/fact-bernie-sanders-got-more-done-in-the-senate-than-hillary-clinton/
Hillary pushed Fracking on the rest of the planet: http://www.motherjones.com/.../hillary-clinton-fracking...
Hillary and childhood poverty: http://www.salon.com/.../the_worst_thing_hillary_clinton.../
What Hillary calls "feminism" : https://www.jacobinmag.com/.../hillary-clinton-womens.../
Hillary open to raising the retirement age and reducing SS benefits: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/hillary-clinton-indicates-she-is-open-to-raising-the-retirement-age.html
How women workers faired at Walmart when Hillary was on it's board:
Hillary takes millions in campaign cash from her "enemies": http://www.usnews.com/.../hillary-takes-millions-in...
Economy would boom under Sanders: http://money.cnn.com/.../news/economy/sanders-income-jobs/
Bernie vows to stop the toxic TPP (which Hillary praised as "the gold standard of trade deals): http://ecowatch.com/2015/10/05/sanders-stop-tpp-deal/
Hillary's legacy of pushing the party to the right: http://www.truth-out.org/.../33869-hillary-clinton-s...
Chomsky: Democrats are now moderate Republicans: http://trofire.com/.../noam-chomsky-dems-are-now.../
The political compass: http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2016
Bernie rejects big fundraising events: http://www.bloomberg.com/.../bernie-sanders-hates-money...
Elizabeth Warren on Hillary Clinton: https://www.facebook.com/shaunking/videos/986305904741661/