2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)So the defense of Bernie Sanders' lack of a foreign policy is to make up shit about Hillary [View all]
Bernie gives the same speech he's given for 40 years at every venue he goes to.
I don't even need to go to one of his functions to know what he has to say. I've heard it on "brunch with Bernie" for years on Thom Hartman's radio show. I heard it in two debates so far. Probably if we had 100 more debates we would hear it 100 more times.
Free tuition
$15 per hour
Family leave
Job creation
single payer
break up big banks
the top 1% have most of the wealth
Take the country back form the oligarchs
These are all good things
What is lacking is the "how do we get there" and a foreign policy
Now in defense of the above we hear this:
Hillary is a war monger
Hillary is in bed with Wall Street
Hillary is a republican
Hillary is not progressive
Hillary is not a Democrat
Hillary is Bill Clinton II
For six months now I have been waiting for Bernie to tell me how we get there.
Maybe Bernie will get the message like he did with BLM (when he added social justice) and add to his stump speech some "how" instead of just "what."
My dread is that Bernie is like Bill McKay in the movie "The Candidate"
Bill McKay, a novice who has just won an improbable victory, turns dazedly to his campaign manager and asks, "What do we do now?"
Bernie is really no leader. He is mostly a rehearsed set of talking points.