General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Jill Stein got to keep over $4 million from the funds she scammed for her recounts. [View all]pnwmom
(110,262 posts)be pushing it here, trueblueGREEN.
I guess you didn't include a link because you didn't want anyone here to see that that site actually prefers TRUMP over Hillary. Way to go, trueblueGREEN!
https://www.politicalcompass.org/counterpoint-20161110
In Political Compass terms, the US has finished up with a socially reactionary anti-establishment president. It might well have had a socially progressive anti-establishment one. The inescapable conclusion is that the Democratic Party hierarchy preferred Clinton to lose than Sanders to win.
SNIP
Trump is an old-fashioned isolationist and protectionist. As alarming as the thought of his impulsive finger on the nuclear button may be, he will diffuse the escalating tensions with Russia, and the attempts to portray Putin as the new Saddam. he will also hopefully fulfil his promise to tear up the planned Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, which many nations are being dragged into. Far from being merely about free trade, the TPPA gives corporations unprecedented and dangerous engagement in many aspects of governance.
Most importantly, Trumps every move will be analysed and criticised not only by the Democrats, but also by large chunks of his own party. This is a healthier situation than during the previous eight years, when a Democratic president delivered a largely Republican programme while his party remained shamefully silent. A socially reactionary and highly unpredictable new president gratefully inherits the Obama administrations provisions for illegal detentions without charges, domestic spying of citizens and extrajudicial assassinations precedents that would be damned as quasi-fascist if Trump had initiated them.
___________________________________
By contrast with your fav site, ontheissues.org not only rates Hillary as a "hard core liberal" -- but includes detailed information on the issues that they reviewed in giving her that rating.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Hillary_Clinton.htm
International Issues Domestic Issues Economic Issues Social Issues
Foreign Policy Gun Control Budget & Economy Education
Homeland Security Crime Government Reform Civil Rights
War & Peace Drugs Tax Reform Abortion
Free Trade Health Care Social Security Families & Children
Immigration Technology Corporations Welfare & Poverty
Energy & Oil Environment Jobs Principles & Values
Signature sponsorships (key bills introduced by Hillary Clinton)