2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: More and more this primary has distilled down to one thing for me: [View all]Jarqui
(10,122 posts)When one can't be honest with people, what they're really saying is: "What I am and what I really stand for isn't good enough so I have to lie to measure up to the other guy." And that's exactly what she did several times over as documented in last night's thread. And she did so in a setting that seemed to be set up to favor her as we also documented.
Bernie is rock solid on what he stands for. He's being fighting for it his whole life. He's an honest, decent man. They can nitpick his policies complaining the numbers don't add up - which nearly anybody can do to any politician's policies but he is sincere. If they want to bicker whether he'll save you $4,500 on health care and it eventually works to half or quarter of that, who cares? It's a found wallet compared to what you're not going to get from the other candidate. What he's telling you he wants is what he's always wanted:to help people, particularly those at the bottom economically.
The most important thing to the other candidate is to ruthlessly do what ever she has to to obtain power. She's hired people to smear Bernie and they've tried to do so. She's corrupted the DNC. Her campaign has twisted Bernie's words or positions to misrepresent him. etc. A whole bunch of shenanigans that we've discussed here. And the corporate media seems to be helping her.
As you say, the most important thing to Bernie is helping people.
To me, they're as different as night and day and that is what we saw displayed again last night.