Where did the "Bernie doesn't care about 'getting things done' " meme even START?
If the guy didn't want to "get things done", why would he ever have run for office in the first place?
And if he'd never gotten anything done, why would anyone ever have voted to re-elect him?
Fact is, until the Dems were back in a majority, HRC didn't get a damn thing done in the Senate(other than giving Dubbikins the chance to murder at least 500,000 Iraqis).
The big difference between Bernie and HRC is this:
Bernie gets it that no Democratic president will be able to get anything done until we build a mass movement to crush corporate rule. If we don't do that, we can never undo the gerrymandering in the state legislatures, until we can undo the gerrymandering in the state legislatures we have no chance of breaking Tea Party/Koch control of Congress, and until we break Tea Party/Koch control of Congress, no progressive, pro-people legislation can ever get passed into law.
HRC, by contrast, has made it clear throughout her career by her deeds that she thinks that it's worth settling for the trivial tinkering 'round the edges of the edges that the 1% will grudgingly tolerate. She clearly believes that, in general that it is the natural order of things for the 1% to set the limits of the possible, and that the few should have a veto over the dreams of the many. And she will always be perfectly comfortable acting as the enforcer of the limits the powerful impose on us from above.
Knowing that, which of those people do YOU think actually cares about "getting things done"?
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