2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Very intersting opinion piece by a Black man on the Sanders campaign [View all]Uncle Joe
(59,676 posts)deference to corporate interests over the people both here and abroad, unfettered free trade, exorbitant speaking fees, the Clinton Foundation's ties to weapon sales, welfare reform, supporting mass incarceration, her ties to lobbyists with the for profit prison industry, the Keystone Pipeline, fracking, super pacs, mega-donors from Wall Street, support of the for profit "health" insurance industry's stranglehold on health care and a host of other issues suggest otherwise.
Hillary's penchant for regime change and waging war is not more liberal or progressive than Thatcher.
Bernie has consistently argued against war except in rare cases insofar as going into Afghanistan to take on Al Qaueda after 9/11 and Bosnia to prevent massacre, with Bernie war has been and is a last resort.
Bernie's long career and if you wish I will provide video evidence has been in championing the downtrodden, those living in poverty, rebuilding our middle class, taking on the big banks and their reckless speculation which crashed our economy, being against our dysfunctional campaign finance system and the mega-dollars corrupting influence on the electoral process and in turn our government, Bernie has promoted the fight against climate change much more aggressively than Hillary citing it in a debate as the greatest threat against our nation.
These are just some of the critical issues that separate the candidates regardless of gender, it's more than 3 or 4 categories and they have profound impacts on our society.