2016 Postmortem
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onehandle
(51,122 posts)Didn't show up.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Did they?
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)One $Trillion for Iraq (that we know about). $60Billion to educate our young thru college, and end $20,000-$200,000 student loan burdens.
Clinton voted FOR the Iraq War. Sanders led the fight against it.
Clinton says she wants to tweak the system (f.i., lower interest rates), if we can believe that she will fight even for that against her bankster donors.
Sanders says let's do it like we used to in this country, and like every civilized country does: FREE public colleges and universities! Bail out Wall Street? Bail out our students by making those Wall Street SOBs pay for their blasted casino!
I remember free public colleges and universities in CA. Also free Community Colleges (where, if you didn't have the grades for college, coming out of high school, you could earn an AA and go from there to a 4-yr college). Free community college was also available for adult continuing education. Great program! All gone. Now everything is not only costly, it is downsized. (Can't get the classes you need; so students have to keep going to school for 5 and 6 years, more debt included.)
Sanders will do this--and, believe me, with his numbers against Republicans (beats them all, by significant margins, in recent national polls; whereas Clinton beats Trump by half the pts that Sanders does, and she loses to Cruz and Rubio!), he WILL have coattails, and get a better Congress this time, and a much better Congress in the future. He knows the ins and outs of Congress very well, indeed, and will use the "bully pulpit," the internet revolution, vast marches for economic justice, and every "in and out" that he knows, to get this done. Will Clinton--even for her tepid reforms?