Addendum to Sanders Land, Clinton Castle:
Sky-High Pie.
The Hillary Clinton campaign and others are making numerous arguments as to why it's not "smart" to vote for Bernie Sanders. This aside dispenses with these quickly. They can all be labeled "Sky-High Pie": like a meringue topping, they may be tasty but they are all fluff, no substance.
• Bernie Sanders' proposals are "Pie In The Sky":
Hillary Clinton claims that his single-payer health care plan will never make it through Congress, for example. She is operating from the viewpoint of her own unfortunate experience of more than twenty years ago when she tried to cobble together an impossibly complex system that failed to remove the for-profit insurance industry from our health care system. This is covered in more detail in the main essay above. Times have changed, and Bernie Sanders has committed to true health care reform and already has significant support for his proposal. Single-payer can work every bit as well as Social Security, which has been a phenomenal success in the more than 70 years of its existence. Please read the essay "Social Security Solvency" for greater depth on this issue.
• A vote against Hillary Clinton is a vote against women (or women's rights):
This is a particularly egregious argument that bears no weight. Yes, there are those who are sexist and will never vote for any woman, just as there are those who are racist and will never vote for an African-American (Barak Obama) or anti-semitic and will never vote for a Jew (Bernie Sanders), but anyone who votes for Hillary Clinton primarily because she is a woman is sexist. Let us all welcome the twenty-first century and vote on policy and human decency, not labels.
• "America" will never elect a socialist:
Sheer poppycock. Bernie Sanders is proving that the U.S. electorate is ready to cast off the age-old fear of socialism, recognizing that it is not a threat but a fundamental element of our society, and has been since the nation's founding. Please read the essay "Socialism" for greater depth on this issue.
• The Undemocratic Bias of the Mainstream Media:
If we learn anything from this election it is that the mainstream media (think CNN, Fox News, The New York Times and most major news channels) is so craven that they would rather provide the lion's share of coverage to the candidate with the most outrageous claims (Donald Trump) to sell news than highlight the accomplishments of the candidate who is doing the most to transform our politics into a more humane and sensible endeavor (Bernie Sanders). Their failure to give the Bernie Sanders campaign any credence until very recently is testament to their bias against those who seek truly positive change.
Return to Sanders Land, Clinton Castle.
• Bernie Sanders' proposals are "Pie In The Sky":
Hillary Clinton claims that his single-payer health care plan will never make it through Congress, for example. She is operating from the viewpoint of her own unfortunate experience of more than twenty years ago when she tried to cobble together an impossibly complex system that failed to remove the for-profit insurance industry from our health care system. This is covered in more detail in the main essay above. Times have changed, and Bernie Sanders has committed to true health care reform and already has significant support for his proposal. Single-payer can work every bit as well as Social Security, which has been a phenomenal success in the more than 70 years of its existence. Please read the essay "Social Security Solvency" for greater depth on this issue.
• A vote against Hillary Clinton is a vote against women (or women's rights):
This is a particularly egregious argument that bears no weight. Yes, there are those who are sexist and will never vote for any woman, just as there are those who are racist and will never vote for an African-American (Barak Obama) or anti-semitic and will never vote for a Jew (Bernie Sanders), but anyone who votes for Hillary Clinton primarily because she is a woman is sexist. Let us all welcome the twenty-first century and vote on policy and human decency, not labels.
• "America" will never elect a socialist:
Sheer poppycock. Bernie Sanders is proving that the U.S. electorate is ready to cast off the age-old fear of socialism, recognizing that it is not a threat but a fundamental element of our society, and has been since the nation's founding. Please read the essay "Socialism" for greater depth on this issue.
• The Undemocratic Bias of the Mainstream Media:
If we learn anything from this election it is that the mainstream media (think CNN, Fox News, The New York Times and most major news channels) is so craven that they would rather provide the lion's share of coverage to the candidate with the most outrageous claims (Donald Trump) to sell news than highlight the accomplishments of the candidate who is doing the most to transform our politics into a more humane and sensible endeavor (Bernie Sanders). Their failure to give the Bernie Sanders campaign any credence until very recently is testament to their bias against those who seek truly positive change.
Return to Sanders Land, Clinton Castle.