2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: THIS is who they want to put in the Whitehouse? Really?!? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)and I worked hard on the McGovern campaign and for campaigns after that when I was in the US.
I will vote for every Democrat on my ballot EXCEPT HILLARY.
She may think sincerely that once she is in office, she will not do favors for her donors, but if she does, she is wrong. All that money she has collected from rich people, all her social contacts with rich people, all that will affect where she stands on the issues.
You only need to hear her stands on issues like free tuition at state schools, single payer, the minimum wage, and military engagements to know that she is influenced in her views, strongly influenced by the interests of the wealthy people who give her money.
She will not make a good president. The Republicans hate her. She is not presidential material.
Would you have voted for her back when she said that marriage was a religious rite?
She was wrong about that. Marriage has like many English words, two meanings. It can refer to a religious rite, but it also refers to a legal relationship, a strictly legal relationship. It always has. She was downright, unequivocally wrong when she defined it solely as a religious rite.
She has been and is wrong about a lot of things including the free tuition for all students at state colleges and universities. She thinks rich kids should pay for their tuition. Well why should a rich kid who may have great differences with his wealthy father have to rely on his wealthy father to pay for his education? She is wrong about the idea of free tuition for qualified students for state colleges and universities.
She is also wrong about single payer. We have a huge addiction problem in our country. Addiction is a medical and psychological problem. Addicts need single payer.
Hillary is wrong on so many issues. Bernie is and always has been right on those same issues.
The War in Iraq is an excellent example.
Hillary was warned in an excellent conversation that was videotaped by Code Pink to vote no on the IWR. She voted yes. We know what happened after that. Listen to Bernie's statement before voting no on the IWR. That is the insight, the intelligence, the thoughtfulness that we need in the White House.
Feeling the Bern is not about Bernie's looks or personality. It is about his views on the issues. Bernie is not a fad. Bernie is a brilliant man with wise, calm, fair views on the issues.
Hillary is a phony candidate. She changes her opinion with the mob because she doesn't think things through in the first place.
And her accusation against Bernie about voting for the Commodities Futures Act is hypocritical since her very own husband signed that awful bill.
Feel the Bern!
Bernie supporters are about the issues. Hillary's supporters????? Who knows why they support her?