2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sanders says he’s courting Trump supporters [View all]BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)Lockheed Martin, builder of the failed and flawed F-35, gets 82% of its revenue from the U.S. Gov't - from American taxpayers, and the failed project has already cost U.S. taxpayers over $1 trillion dollars. It's also the epitome of wasteful Pentagon spending. But Bernie's aaaaaall for keeping the big $$ going to that failed project, just as long as they create a few jobs for his peeps back in Burlington who will then cast their vote for him.
Politics as usual.
So give me a break when you excoriate Hillary Clinton for being a big corporatist while completely ignoring your preferred candidate's chummy-chummy relationship with a huge taxpayer draining, MiC-luvin, Pentagon wasteful spending corporation. Your preferred candidate's house has wafer-thin glass walls.
And although Sanders supporters would LOVE to paint their candidate as some Saint, he ain't. He's a politician (and a not very good one at that). There's NO WAY he can redirect the racists/misogynists/bigots' attention from their favorite pastimes toward Wall Street and MiC. Courting them is a waste of time. They embrace their racism, misogyny, and bigotry with Merican pride and enthusiasm.