2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How can thoughtful people even *consider* Hillary for President? [View all]senz
(11,945 posts)starting in the Fall of 2000 when Nader voters were smugly bragging in our faces about how cool it was to be voting third party and I begged them to try to imagine this country under Bush. They didn't care. So we got 9/11, the longest war in our nation's history, a ripped up Middle East resulting in hundreds of thousands dead, mass exodus and ISIS, the Patriot Act, Roberts and Alito on the Supreme Court, and our nation's worst economic collapse since 1929.
I have continued to argue with purists ever since.
However, Bernie Sanders is running as a Democrat (not third party) and has said that he will throw his support behind the Democratic nominee if it's not him, because he, like you and me, fears a Republican presidency.
What you need to know is that Bernie is committed to undoing the damage that Reagan, Bush I and Bush II did to our country, while Hillary has no such commitment. The Clintons are buddy-buddy with the Bushes, supported by the big banks and other corporate interests, and don't give a damn about working Americans. Bernie tells the people what's wrong and what we need to do about it, and all of his plans are realistic and workable. Hillary says whatever she thinks will get her elected.
So if you want to support genuine Democratic values, you need to get behind Bernie as soon as possible because we need him to win the nomination.