2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Tell me three things Hillary will do as president to improve my life as a PERSON that Bernie has not [View all]Tortmaster
(382 posts)Just kidding.
1. Secretary Clinton has made it known to millions of people on live TV that one of her main enemies is the NRA. Senator Sanders, on the other hand, has said, "I am pro-gun," and he has said that gun control is a state's rights issue. This one's a no-brainer, as Senator Sanders' hawkish domestic policy on guns has aided and abetted our sick gun culture. Way, way more than 13 million people have been gun victims since the Senator from Vermont first voted against the Brady Bill. (And he ended up voting against a form of the Brady Bill five times).
2. All of Senator Sanders' state's rights positions are anathema to Democrats. For example, with health care, he wants the states to administer his plan. Has he not seen what Republican Governors have done to Medicaid Expansion, killing 17,000 people per year who didn't have to die, and bankrupting 61,000+ per year in Texas alone. His plan is a big fuck you to Democrats in Southern states.
3. If you are not a minority or woman, then your friends or family who are would benefit from a Clinton Presidency. Senator Sanders has basically brushed off certain issues so that he can focus on one issue. That's not what a President does (or is able to do). We are a little over a month since Senator Sanders hired a coordinator to help with Hispanic outreach in the primary. That should have been the first, second or third card he pulled out of his Rolodex when he first planned to run for President.
4. If you want to get something done on Education, for example, a President Clinton has a feasible plan. Senator Sanders plan--and he actually said this out loud on television--was to have "a million" or so "young people" march on Washington, D.C. Can you see some potential flaws with the Senator's plans?
5. To get anything done, you have to win the general. The most likely combination, in my opinion, a dream ticket of Secretaries Clinton and Castro would crush the Electoral College; whereas, our friend, Senator Sanders, would be slandered by a billion dollars of GOP ad money in Ohio and Florida and would lose those states and others, in the mold of a McGovern or Dukakis.
6. &tc....
(How does spell check on democraticunderground.com not recognize the name "Dukakis" or, for that matter, "democraticunderground.com"?)