2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: On what issue is Hillary better than Bernie? [View all]Armstead
(47,803 posts)It IS possible to walk and chew gum at the same time. It IS possible to think and care about the economy, and also to think and care about other issues too.
And I wish I was exagerating. But if you look at the big picture its pretty bad. Do you REALLY think it's a good things for a handful of massive and immoral banks to have total control over our economic lives? And have the power to crash everything as they did in 2008?
And it is not "just" economics. These things affect everything.
The fact that we have turned over control of all of our institutions to corporations (privatization, deregulation, etc) with no accountability doesn't matter to the real lives of people? Bullshit.
Okay, let's talk criminal justice. You think it's a good idea, for example, to have for-profit corporations running our prison systems, and determining how criminal justice is carried out? It's okay for those prisons to become defacto slave labor camps with prisoners hired out to the highest bidder? You would prefer that to a public system that is accountable?
Does it matter whether the corporation you have to buy electricity from is required to behave themselves in terms of what they charge and quality of service or not?
Does it matter whether health coverage is truly affordable and accessible to everyone -- or is just another unregulated business that can do whatever they want to make a profit off your health? You want to talk about women's health? Think the economic structure and driving motivations of providers doesn't matter to that?
Sorry if you think all of that is irrelevant.