2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton supporters can't attack Bernie Sanders on policy [View all]eridani
(51,907 posts)Sanders has come out for legalization of MJ at the state level. Heard that he had been considering national, but can't find a reference. Clinton was a cheerleader for the mass incarceration of the 90s. She has not even committed to moving MJ from schedule 1. The War on Some Drugs is a war on minorities and poor people. Drug violence is mostly due to the huge profits available when it is illegal, and Clinton seems to want to keep it that way.
Taking time from his campaign to visit Arkansas for the execution of mentally disabled Ricky Ray Rector was pretty vile when Bill did it. This is supposed to be connecting with the black community? Though I suspect that Hillary probably tried to overrule him on that and failed. (At least I hope she did.)
Sanders has a black press secretary. I have little contact with Sanders staff due to living in a late caucus state, one in which Clinton operatives in 2008 threatened the chair of my local Dem organization with no political career unless she backed the inevitable nominee. Sanders has met with BLM activists in Portland that I know of.
On gun violence, he has a D minus from the NRA, as opposed to the A rating of the current Vermont Representative, and Howard Dean in 2004. What has anyone accomplished to end gun violence? We couldn't even get anywhere with stricter background checks after Sandy Hook, which is discouraging. Larger population centers have tougher laws already, necessary because of urban anonymity.
Are you saying that $15/hr minimum wage, public college tuition paid for by a financial transaction tax, Medicare for All are of no concern to the black community? Or helping foreclosure victims instead of banks, when so many black families were pushed into subprime loans instead of regular loans that they were actually qualified to get? Black families are fine with deindustrialization due to "free" "trade"?