2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why I DON'T support Bernie for President [View all]modestybl
(458 posts)Health Care. Iraq war. HRC appears not to "get" much of anything.
Bernie Sanders co-sponsored the only significant legislation that got passed last year... I can't recall ANYTHING that HRC sponsored of any significance during her 8 years in the Senate.
Sanders has handled the BLM disruptions with honesty and graciousness... anyone who gets ambushed on stage is put in a very vulnerable situation, but Sanders isn't afraid to do that ... HRC is so over-handled, over-coached, over-consulted, that few people trust anything she says... she has security around her so tight that no one from the outside world gets close without her leave...
Sanders has been front and center about the middle class, racial issues, the corrosive effects of crony capitalism and ruinious wars for decades. HRC is one of the Dems responsible for the current sad state of unending war and too-big-to-fail banks. BTW the people that warned against the loosening (and repeal) of Glass Stegall were right. The defenders were wrong. In a universe that now has too big to fail as a reality, probably needs much more than reinstating Glass-Steagall to rein in the enshrining of finance above a real physical economy.
So, Bernie Sanders didn't show up to your little bureaucratic corner? Maybe he was busy representing his constituents.
But on some level, you know this... you go on the attack against Sanders because you can't really make the case for HRC on her own merits.