Don't buy the spin that Bernie and Hillary are 92% alike on the issues.

[Jack Rabbit]

23. I don't buy it either

How do you quantify "The Issues"? What's 92% of "The Issues"?

OK, it means they don't differ significantly on civil rights for racial minorities, women or gays, at least not when compared to their Republican counterparts.

Senator Sanders and Mrs. Clinton differ fundamentally on trade, industry and finance. Contrary to the way "The Issues" are usually divvied up, where civil rights and health care are "social" issues and the matters names a sentence back are "economic" issues, for 2016 there are no economic issues. Trade, industry and banking have become social issues. We think of them that way now because if corporations were actual people, as their apologists say they are, they would be diagnosed as sociopaths. A sociopath is a psychopath whose behavior is to act in ways the demonstrate no concern for the health and well being of the community at large. A psychopath might act in ways that do harm to people as individuals. Jeffrey Dahmer was a psychopath. An individual who mounts a coal burner on his pick up is a sociopath. A corporate executive who professes to deny climate science and takes no responsibility for the greenhouse gases he dumps into the atmosphere is a sociopath.

Here, Mrs. Clinton has a history of corporate friendly votes and taking corporate friendly positions on issue. Specifically, she has called criticism of Wall Street "foolish" and has indicated through an aide whom she didn't repudiate that she would not reimpose the Glass-Steagall Act. Senator Sanders makes criticism of Wall Street a campaign centerpiece, has said that not only would he revive Glass-Steagall but would take ant-trust measures against the Big Banks and break them up.

These are huge issues and are more than 92% of my total thoughts concerning who should be the next president. I believe that Wall Street behavior is out of control and that the current gaggle of free trade deals will so further harm to Americans who have been greatly harmed already. Senator Sanders opposes these deals while Mrs. Clinton, who has supported similar measures in the past, is determined to say nothing.