2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: WaPo: "Bernie Sanders just gave an amazingly condescending interview about Hillary Clinton" [View all]glowing
(12,233 posts)She won, he lost, Fuck You! Well, without those popular ideas that many Drmocrats and Independents liked, we continue to choke down establishment bullshit that only works for a handful of people. Look at gun regulation. Money in politics is so powerful, the Republicans won't wven allow a vote on denying those on a "no fly list" to buy weapons OR to increase background checks to include gun shows.
Quite honestly, the first woman President should be helping to foster a moment of peace, universal healthcare (and I don't mean this sick perversion of the ACA straight from the Heritage Foundation), increasing access to education, increasing access for safe affordable housing, increasing environmental standards, increasing minimum wages so that women (who tend to have to work as shitty jobs) can take care of their families, having paid maternity and paternity leave, mandating paid vacation time... The fact that Bernie, a man, is more pro-Feminist, than the first woman nominee of Dem Party is simply mind numbing... And then to see so many people say, "nah, nah, we won, sit down, shut up, we don't want those good things, we want more fracking, we want shitty wages, we want money in politics, we want crappy health care, we want poisoned water, we want to keep shipping jobs overseas and opening up more H-1b visas so people can train cheaper workers to do their job before they are fired. Nah, nah".
Seriously, is this Dem Underground or freaking Somalia is Grand, let's continue emulating that country.