2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The adults in the room have to show up and vote in November, it is our responsibility to do so. [View all]Beowulf
(761 posts)but not for me. My ballot will have lots of choices.
Your argument asks me to imagine what a Trump presidency might mean? I agree that it likely would be pretty bad. But you assume a Hillary administration would be better. I'm not so confident about that. I see a strong possibility of the following:
An aggressive foreign policy that will have our troops involved in hostilities in multiple countries
Support for regime changes similar to Honduras
TPP, TiPP, and all sorts of other trade agreements that kill jobs and trade away our sovereignty to unelected transnational courts
Restrictions on abortion
A weakened Social Security, Medicare, and Medicade
Changes in health care that will keep private insurance companies in outrageous profits
No action on too big to fail banks
No action on off shore tax evasion
No action on student indebtedness or the high cost of higher education
No action on income inequality
Pay to Play on a scale that's never been seen before
Continued fracking
No real, meaningful response to carbon emissions
Bloated military spending
Continuation of austerity measures
Nomination of corporate friendly judges
Deportation of undocumented workers and/or a guest worker program that will lock in workers to starvation wages
No action on demilitarization of police
This is just a partial list. Perhaps what concerns me most is that she would provide cover for other corporate Dems to vote for these things, just as Bill provided cover for the Crime Bill, NAFTA, Banking deregulation. She takes issues out of the discussion. She strengthens the ties between the Clinton machine and the DNC.
So it's not so simple for me.