A vote for Bernie is also a vote against something else thats bigger even than the US
Presidential election and likely to be far more important to the planet.
Its called "progressive liberalisation" and that term basically means irreversible one way privatization.
Its also a sort of "ElDorado" like concept where the lure of trade facilitation on goods and likely soon also services, i.e. jobs in developed countries is held out as bait to get poor countries to stay in the US orbit, i.e. the WTO system.
So privatization of practically everything - including health care and education in most cases -(such as ours) is basically the position of the WTO and its required for membership.
Bill Clinton is the American most associated with that agenda, so a vote for Hillary is basically seen elsewhere as a vote for this global scheme which has been hidden from us, her people.
But foreign countries have NO IDEA that is the case.
So, countries joining the US-led WTO have to agree to give up the policies that are framed as trade barriers such as state monopolies in health care and education, and create a global level playing field for corporations from all countries that does not discriminate. So in return for giving up things like rights to education (like India just has) countries huge corporations get access to a larger global marketplace where value is determined solely by objective criteria such as supply and demand. Countries which try to funnel their government procurements to their own corporations can and will be punished.
The US just won a case against a local "green jobs" program in India for example, successfully arguing that an Indian state had engaged in forbidden discriminatory behavior by engaging in New Deal style protectionism, to funnel jobs to Indian companies to the exclusion of other countries firms and workers, which sends a clear message to countries that might violate those most important of WTO rules.
New Deal style programs are the past, the message says loud and clear.
I think its also a way of telling other countries that the US will remain committed to progressive liberalisation of services under WTO, negotiations for which are likely t be concluded soon after 20 years of faltering negotiations, under all but the aberrant Sanders victory, as Sanders (and US economists seem unaware of the changes too!) is arguing for his candidacy as if the WTO and the last 20 years of progressive liberalisation had never happened!
= new reply since forum marked as read
