Raging against reality
WEDNESDAY, JUL 13, 2016 01:24 PM EDT
SEAN ILLING
Bernie Sanders ran an extraordinary race. But he lost and Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee. Thus we have two choices in November: Trump or Clinton. Yes, I know who Jill Stein and Gary Johnson are, but neither of them will be president ... We ought to have more than two plausible choices. But we don’t. Sanders supporters can engage with that reality or they can ignore it. In either case, we have to confront it.
On Tuesday, Sanders ... endorsed Hillary Clinton. Because that’s what adults do in a democratic society once they’ve lost a campaign to a member of their own party. It’s also what someone committed to progressive goals would do. Clinton is not a progressive by any measure, but she’s closer to Sanders than Trump on nearly every issue of import. She’s also not an ethno-nationalist whose knowledge of the world is reducible to half-remembered sound bites ...
Clinton does not represent change. She’s of the system and has exploited it as much as anyone. But Sanders is right: She has vowed to fight on all these crucial fronts. Perhaps you don’t trust her – fine. But is there any reason to trust Trump? When so many lives hang in the balance, why roll the dice? Casting a meaningless protest vote may feel righteous, but it won’t help poor people get health care and it won’t ensure that women have autonomy over their bodies for the next fifty years. And when Trump has all but promised to deliver the Supreme Court to movement conservatives, voting to “blow up” the system isn’t noble; it’s irresponsible ...
... “She stands for everything we’re fighting against.” Really? What about the long list of policies Sanders cited yesterday? Clinton and Sanders’s positions are indistinguishable here. “Truly shocked and saddened by this.” Really? At the very first debate, Sanders said “Hillary Clinton will be an infinitely better candidate and president than the Republican candidate on his best day.” And you’re “shocked” he endorsed her over the worst Republican candidate imaginable? ...
http://www.salon.com/2016/07/13/time_to_move_on_sanders_has_endorsed_clinton_but_some_of_his_backers_are_still_pointlessly_raging_against_reality/
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