Raging against reality
WEDNESDAY, JUL 13, 2016 01:24 PM EDT
SEAN ILLING
Bernie Sanders ran an extraordinary race. But he lost and Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee. Thus we have two choices in November: Trump or Clinton. Yes, I know who Jill Stein and Gary Johnson are, but neither of them will be president ... We ought to have more than two plausible choices. But we dont. Sanders supporters can engage with that reality or they can ignore it. In either case, we have to confront it.
On Tuesday, Sanders ... endorsed Hillary Clinton. Because thats what adults do in a democratic society once theyve lost a campaign to a member of their own party. Its also what someone committed to progressive goals would do. Clinton is not a progressive by any measure, but shes closer to Sanders than Trump on nearly every issue of import. Shes also not an ethno-nationalist whose knowledge of the world is reducible to half-remembered sound bites ...
Clinton does not represent change. Shes of the system and has exploited it as much as anyone. But Sanders is right: She has vowed to fight on all these crucial fronts. Perhaps you dont trust her fine. But is there any reason to trust Trump? When so many lives hang in the balance, why roll the dice? Casting a meaningless protest vote may feel righteous, but it wont help poor people get health care and it wont ensure that women have autonomy over their bodies for the next fifty years. And when Trump has all but promised to deliver the Supreme Court to movement conservatives, voting to blow up the system isnt noble; its irresponsible ...
... She stands for everything were fighting against. Really? What about the long list of policies Sanders cited yesterday? Clinton and Sanderss positions are indistinguishable here. Truly shocked and saddened by this. Really? At the very first debate, Sanders said Hillary Clinton will be an infinitely better candidate and president than the Republican candidate on his best day. And youre shocked he endorsed her over the worst Republican candidate imaginable? ...
http://www.salon.com/2016/07/13/time_to_move_on_sanders_has_endorsed_clinton_but_some_of_his_backers_are_still_pointlessly_raging_against_reality/
sheshe2
(84,102 posts)Hoppy
(3,595 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)not the OP.
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)the choice is clear- Clinton, or we're fucked, and the Supreme Court will be a force of evil for decades.