While Bernie Sanders continues to make us all on 9-1-1 alert, looking awful up there shouting the same rhetoric over and over to rally young idiots who only know who he is because they went to a mushroom festival, (gheesh), Hillary Clinton is not only aware of all the same shit you’re hurling, but unlike you young voters, we’ve been on this train since Obama got into office.
Welcome to the party. Now, inform yourself and stop wasting the Democratic nominee. For real, this is bullshit. Get the fuck out of her way, Sanders, CLINTON IS READY TO KICK SOME REPUBLICAN ASS.
Her website (https://www.hillaryclinton.com/) breaks it all down brilliantly:
“Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders share a lot of big progressive goals—but they differ in how they plan to achieve them.
Here’s how The New York Times put it in their recent endorsement:
“ In the end, though, Mr. Sanders does not have the breadth of experience or policy ideas that Mrs. Clinton offers. His boldest proposals — to break up the banks and to start all over on health care reform with a Medicare-for-all system—have earned him support among alienated middle-class voters and young people. But his plans for achieving them aren’t realistic, while Mrs. Clinton has very good, and achievable, proposals in both areas.”
New York Times”
If you inspect the link, you’ll see detailed actual plans for achieving our democratic goals, not just shouting like a mad scientist, Bernie.
And on and on and on. This is what happened: in 30 years of being a senator, Bernie never gave this much of a fuck about anything. Now that he unexpectedly rallied young people who will do anything for their friends to think they’re anti-establishment, he’s riding this hype train straight to hell. Here’s a whole page of breakdowns for all the issues we as Democrats (and people with souls) support: https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/
Alzheimer’s disease
We can prevent, effectively treat, and make an Alzheimer’s cure possible by 2025.
Campaign finance reform
Our democracy should work for everyone, not just the wealthy and well-connected.
Campus sexual assault
It’s not enough to condemn campus sexual assault. We need to stop campus sexual assault.
Climate change and energy
Making America the clean energy superpower of the 21st century.
College
The New College Compact: Costs won’t be a barrier, debt won’t hold you back.
Criminal justice reform
Our criminal justice system is out of balance.
Disability rights
We must continue to expand opportunities for all Americans.
Early childhood education
Every child deserves the chance to live up to his or her God-given potential.
Economy
The defining economic challenge of our time is raising incomes for hard-working Americans.
Gun violence prevention
It is past time we act on gun violence.
Health care
Affordable health care is a basic human right.
Immigration reform
America needs comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship.
Infrastructure
Strong infrastructure is critical to a strong economy.
K–12 education
A world-class education for every child in every community.
Labor
When unions are strong, America is strong.
LGBT equality
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans deserve to live their lives free from discrimination.
National security
With policies that keep us strong and safe, America can lead the world in the 21st century.
Paid leave
It’s time to guarantee paid family and medical leave in America.
Rural communities
America’s rural communities are at the heart of what makes this country great.
Small business
Hillary Clinton will be a small business president.
Social Security and Medicare
We must preserve, protect, and strengthen these lifelines.
Substance use disorder and addiction
Through improved treatment, prevention, and training, we can end this quiet epidemic once and for all.
Veterans, the armed forces, and their families
America must fully commit to supporting veterans.
Voting rights
We should be making it easier to vote, not harder.
Wall Street and corporate America
Wall Street must work for Main Street.
Women’s rights and opportunity
Women’s issues are family issues, economic issues, and crucial to our future competitiveness.
Workforce and skills
Every American should be able to learn new skills in order to advance in their careers.
We love getting all riled up to support our candidates, but at what point is it just to “win?” And then we forget all the true amount of issues that matter…
Fittingly, this was Clinton’s theme in the debate tonight. Bernie thinks we can improve race relations, “by getting rid of ‘tax breaks to billionaires,’ “(Vox). This is his answer to literally every question: blame the banks. Clinton called him out for being so single-issued. She is on top of Flint and so many other little things Sanders is neglecting. That’s why she earned this ringing endorsement today:
“One of the individuals that has been with us time and time again has been Hillary Clinton. She has been, her whole career, an individual that has been fighting for issues that are important to the African-American community,” [Gregory] Meeks said.
Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, a revered civil rights leader in the 1960s, emphasized that point. He told reporters he didn’t recall Sanders’ role in the civil rights movement. “I never saw him. I never met him,” Lewis said. “I was chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for three years, from 1963 to 1966. I was involved with the sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, the March on Washington, the march from Selma to Montgomery and directed to voter education project for six years. But I met Hillary Clinton. I met President Clinton.”
Source: Congressional Black Caucus PAC stands behind Clinton – CNNPolitics.com
Via Vox, here is the transcript of her speech’s conclusion last night:
“We agree that we’ve got to get unaccountable money out of politics. We agree that Wall Street should never be allowed to wreck Main Street again. But here’s the point I want to make tonight. I am not a single issue candidate, and I do not believe we live in a single issue country.
I think that a lot of what we have to overcome to break down the barriers that are holding people back, whether it’s poison in the water of the children of Flint, or whether it’s the poor miners who are being left out and left behind in coal country, or whether it is any other American today who feels somehow put down and oppressed by racism, by sexism, by discrimination against the LGBT community, against the kind of efforts that need to be made to root out all of these barriers, that is what I want to take on.
And here in Wisconsin I want to reiterate, we’ve got to stand up for unions and working people who have been at the core of the American middle class and who are being attacked by ideologues, by demagogues. Yes, does Wall Street and big financial interests along with drug companies, insurance companies, big oil, all of it, have too much influence? You’re right.
But if we were to stop that tomorrow, we would still have the indifference, the negligence that we saw in Flint. We would still have racism holding people back. We would still have sexism preventing women from getting equal pay.We would still have LGBT people who get married on Saturday and get fired on Monday. And we would still have governors like Scott Walker and others trying to rip out the heart of the middle class by making it impossible to organize and stand up for better wages and working conditions.
So I’m going to keep talking about tearing down all the barriers that stand in the way of Americans fulfilling their potential because I don’t think our country can live up to its potential unless we give a chance to every single American to live up to theirs.”
Unfortunately, even though Sanders probably isn’t a bad guy, he ultimately is becoming a showman, similar to Trump on the other side. The more this race goes on, we as citizens must be aware that this is serious, and not some kind of sporting event. It’s about the issues, the rights we have to stand up for. And action speaks louder than words.
…………….see it for yourself and tell the truth. ..Hillary has kicked ass since day one….Bernie could not figure out if he was a Republican or a Democrat so he weaseled out of the spotlight only to jump in front of Hillary’s now…….he’s got nothing but bile and there is a reason he has no support from any of his fellow Senators….You’ve done lukewarm for 25 years Bernie and your blood pressure is still higher than mine.